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[LOUIS ARMSTRONG
AND HIS HOT FIVE'S
"BASIN STREET BLUES" PLAYING]
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WOMAN AS DOROTHY PARKER: HE HAS
THE MOST PROFOUND BRAVERY
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THAT IT HAS EVER BEEN
MY PRIVILEGE TO SEE.
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HE HAS HAD ABOUT 8 TIMES
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THE NORMAL ALLOTMENT
OF RESPONSIBILITIES.
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IT TAKES COURAGE.
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HE REFERRED TO THE QUALITY
AS "GUTS."
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HE WEIGHS ABOUT 200 POUNDS,
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AND HE IS EVEN BETTER
THAN THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS.
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THE EFFECT UPON WOMEN
IS SUCH THAT THEY WANT TO
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GO RIGHT OUT AND GET HIM
AND BRING HIM HOME, STUFFED.
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DOROTHY PARKER.
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NARRATOR: BY THE TIME
"A FAREWELL TO ARMS"
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TOPPED THE BEST-SELLER LISTS
IN 1929,
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COLORFUL STORIES HAD ALREADY
BEGUN TO CIRCULATE
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ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
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MANY OF THEM TOLD
BY THE WRITER HIMSELF.
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HE'D ONCE PLANNED TO BE
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A PROFESSIONAL BOXER,
HE CLAIMED.
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HE'D FOUGHT IN THE ITALIAN ARMY
DURING THE GREAT WAR,
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BEEN WOUNDED 7 SEPARATE TIMES,
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AND BEEN AWARDED
A CHEST-FULL OF MEDALS
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ABOUT WHICH HE SAID
HE WAS TOO MODEST TO SPEAK.
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AND HE'D NEARLY
STARVED TO DEATH IN PARIS
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WHILE LEARNING TO WRITE.
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NONE OF THESE STORIES WAS TRUE.
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EDNA O'BRIEN:
HE MYTHOLOGIZED HIMSELF.
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WHY DO PEOPLE MYTHOLOGIZE?
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TO WOO OTHER PEOPLE
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AND ALSO TO
KEEP THEM AT A DISTANCE.
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TO FEEL INADEQUATE, BUT TO
BOAST ABOUT BEING OVER-ADEQUATE.
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KATAKIS: HEMINGWAY CONSTRUCTED
HIS MYTH TO A LARGE DEGREE
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AND HE MADE THE MISTAKE
THAT ALL MYTH-MAKERS DO--
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HE THOUGHT THAT
HE COULD CONTROL IT.
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AND THERE COMES A TIME
THAT YOU CAN'T ANYMORE.
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IT'S TAKEN ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN.
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IT BECAME VERY EXHAUSTING
TO BE HEMINGWAY.
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THE HEMINGWAY THAT
THE PUBLIC THOUGHT.
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AND LET'S FACE IT,
WHEN HE WAS IN THE PUBLIC,
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HE WAS ALWAYS IN THE PUBLIC EYE
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AND THE PEOPLE EXPECTED
HEMINGWAY TO BE HEMINGWAY.
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[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S "THE GARDEN
OF EDEN MIX 3" PLAYING]
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NARRATOR: HIS ART AND THE GAUDY
MYTHS THAT GREW UP AROUND HIM
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WERE ALREADY BECOMING CONFUSED
IN THE PUBLIC MIND.
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AT FIRST, HE HIMSELF
WAS EMBARRASSED
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BY SOME OF THE TALL TALES
WHEN HE SAW THEM IN PRINT.
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BUT AS HIS FAME GREW
OVER THE COMING YEARS,
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IT BECAME HARDER AND HARDER
TO TELL THE REAL HEMINGWAY
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FROM THE ONE HE HAD CREATED.
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WOLFF: THERE'S A CHINESE
PROVERB BY THE SAGE ZHUANGZI
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AND HE HAS IT THIS WAY.
HE SAYS,
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GOOD FORTUNE IS
AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER
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AND FEW ARE STRONG
ENOUGH TO CARRY IT.
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WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WEIGHT
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THAT HIS FAME MUST HAVE
LAID ON HIM,
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EVEN WHEN HE WAS YOUNG,
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AND THE ANXIETY
THAT WOULD PRODUCE OF
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HOW CAN I LIVE UP TO THIS?
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HOW CAN THE NEXT BOOK BE BETTER?
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WHAT IS IN ME
TO MAKE THIS REAL?
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IT'S VERY HARD, I THINK,
TO BE A PUBLIC PERSON LIKE THAT.
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AND SO, I THINK
EVERY PUBLIC PERSON
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CREATES SOME KIND OF AVATAR,
IF YOU WILL, OF THEMSELVES,
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SOME HOLOGRAPH OF THEMSELVES
TO PRESENT PUBLICLY
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TO SAVE WHATEVER
IS PRIVATE IN THEM.
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THE PROBLEM IS THAT
EVENTUALLY YOUR AVATAR
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WILL CONSUME YOU.
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[FATS WALLER'S
"AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'" PLAYING]
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MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
WE HAVE A FINE HOUSE HERE
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AND THE KIDS ARE ALL WELL.
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ALSO 4 RACCOONS, A POSSUM,
18 GOLDFISH, 3 PEACOCKS,
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AND A YARD WITH FIG TREE
AND A LIME TREE.
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VERY FINE THE WAY
PAULINE HAS FIXED IT.
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WE HAVE BEEN, AND ARE,
DAMNED HAPPY.
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I COULD STAY HERE DAMNED NEAR
ALL THE TIME
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AND HAVE A FINE TIME
WATCHING THE THINGS GROW
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AND BE HAPPIER
THAN I UNDERSTAND.
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MAN: ♪ NO ONE TO TALK WITH,
ALL MY MYSELF ♪
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♪ NO ONE TO WALK WITH
BUT I'M HAPPY ON THE SHELF ♪
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♪ AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'... ♪
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NARRATOR: THE BIG
ANTEBELLUM HOUSE
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ON WHITEHEAD STREET
IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA
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WAS A GIFT FROM HIS SECOND WIFE
PAULINE PFEIFFER'S
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WEALTHY UNCLE GUS, WHO BELIEVED
DEEPLY IN HEMINGWAY'S WRITING
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AND WHO WOULD PROVIDE
FINANCIAL HELP TO MAINTAIN
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THEIR EXPENSIVE AND EXTRAVAGANT
WAY OF LIFE.
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DAY TO DAY COSTS WERE COVERED
BY PAULINE'S TRUST FUND.
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3 HEMINGWAY CHILDREN
WOULD SOON BE SEEN THERE:
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JACK, KNOWN AS "BUMBY,"
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THE OFFSPRING OF HEMINGWAY'S
FIRST MARRIAGE,
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SPENT MOST OF EACH YEAR
WITH HIS MOTHER HADLEY,
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WHO WOULD HAPPILY REMARRY
AND SETTLE NEAR CHICAGO.
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BUT HE SUMMERED IN FLORIDA
WITH HIS FATHER AND PAULINE.
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PATRICK, ERNEST AND PAULINE'S
FIRST-BORN,
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CALLED "MOUSE," WAS IN
PERMANENT RESIDENCE.
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SO WAS GREGORY, NICKNAMED
"GIGI," BORN IN 1931.
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MAN: ♪ AIN'T MISBEHAVIN',
SAVIN' ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU ♪
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NARRATOR: MOTHERHOOD WAS ALWAYS
LESS IMPORTANT TO PAULINE
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THAN WHAT SHE SAID
WAS HER FIRST DUTY--
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TO REMAIN ALWAYS
"A LOVELY, UNHARRIED WIFE."
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ERNEST LONGED FOR HER
WHEN EVEN BRIEFLY AWAY
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AND DELIGHTED IN HER WILLINGNESS
TO PLEASE HIM
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BY DYEING HER HAIR--
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LIKE HAVING "A NEW WIFE
EVERY DAY," HE TOLD A FRIEND.
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DEARBORN: HER NUMBER-ONE GOAL
IN LIFE
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IS MAKING HEMINGWAY HAPPY.
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SHE, SHE WANTS HIM
TO KEEP WRITING.
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SHE WAS THE REAL PROTECTOR
OF HIS TALENT.
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AND SHE WANTED TO FACILITATE
THAT IN ANY WAY SHE COULD.
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AND SHE SUBMERGED HERSELF,
HER IDENTITY.
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SHE LEFT HER INFANT CHILDREN,
ONE IS 3 MONTHS OLD
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AT ONE POINT, TO GO HUNTING
WITH HEMINGWAY.
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AND SHE'D SAY, "YOU'RE MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THEY ARE."
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AND HE WAS HER PRIORITY.
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NARRATOR: THE HOUSE ON
WHITEHEAD STREET WOULD BE
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HEMINGWAY'S COMFORTABLE HOME
FOR THE NEXT 8 YEARS.
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WHEN HE WAS NOT WRITING,
HE FISHED THE NEARBY GULF STREAM
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FOR TUNA AND SAILFISH,
MAKO SHARK AND BLUE MARLIN,
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REFEREED BOXING MATCHES
ON FRIDAY NIGHTS,
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AND HUNG OUT IN A FAVORITE
KEY WEST SALOON
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CALLED SLOPPY JOE'S.
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IN KEY WEST, HE ALSO MAINTAINED
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THE STRICT WRITER'S DISCIPLINE
HE HAD FOLLOWED SINCE PARIS.
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[JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S
"CELLO SUITE NO. 1 IN G MAJOR,
BWV 1007: COURANTE" PLAYING]
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MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
I WRITE EVERY MORNING AS SOON
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AFTER FIRST LIGHT AS POSSIBLE.
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THERE IS NO ONE TO DISTURB YOU
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AND IT IS COOL OR COLD
AND YOU COME TO YOUR WORK
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AND WARM AS YOU WRITE.
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PATRICK: HE DIDN'T WORK ALL DAY.
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I THINK THAT'S THE MOST
ILLUMINATING THING
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ABOUT DESCRIBING
HIS WRITING HABITS.
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AFTER LUNCH, HE ENJOYED HIMSELF.
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AS A CHILD GROWING UP,
YOU JUST TAKE
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THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF
YOUR LIFE AS BEING NORMAL.
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AND SO...HE WAS A STRANGE PERSON
IN THE SENSE THAT
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HE WAS INACCESSIBLE
IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY
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AND OVER-ACCESSIBLE
IN THE SECOND.
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BUT I REALLY ENJOYED THE FACT
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THAT HE WAS ALWAYS GAME FOR
SOMETHING IN THE AFTERNOON
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AND THAT WE WERE INCLUDED.
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UNLIKE SOME ARTISTS
THAT I'VE HEARD ABOUT,
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MY DAD WAS A VERY GOOD FATHER.
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MAN AS RALPH ELLISON:
I PRACTICED WRITING
AND STUDIED JOYCE, DOSTOYEVSKY,
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STEIN, AND HEMINGWAY.
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ESPECIALLY HEMINGWAY.
I READ HIM
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TO LEARN HIS SENTENCE STRUCTURE
AND HOW TO ORGANIZE A STORY.
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I GUESS MANY YOUNG WRITERS
WERE DOING THIS,
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BUT I ALSO USED
HIS DESCRIPTION OF HUNTING
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WHEN I WENT INTO THE FIELDS
THE NEXT DAY.
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I HAD BEEN HUNTING
SINCE I WAS 11,
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BUT NO ONE HAD
BROKEN DOWN THE PROCESS
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OF WING-SHOOTING FOR ME,
AND IT WAS
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FROM READING HEMINGWAY THAT
I LEARNED TO LEAD A BIRD.
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WHEN HE DESCRIBES SOMETHING
IN PRINT, BELIEVE HIM.
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HE'S BEEN THERE.
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RALPH ELLISON.
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NARRATOR: ERNEST HEMINGWAY
HAD TRANSFORMED
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THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
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AND REMADE THE AMERICAN NOVEL,
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BUT HE WAS NOT SATISFIED.
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NOW HE WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HIS
MASTERY OF NONFICTION AS WELL.
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RUNNING ALWAYS THROUGH
HEMINGWAY'S WRITING--
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AND HIS LIFE--WAS
A SINGLE DARK THREAD:
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HIS FASCINATION WITH DEATH.
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"ALL STORIES IF CONTINUED
FAR ENOUGH," HE WROTE,
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"END IN DEATH."
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VERGHESE: HOW CAN YOU NOT BE
OBSESSED ABOUT DEATH?
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AND I THINK IT DROVE EVERYTHING
THAT FOLLOWED IN HIS WRITING.
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YOU KNOW, IT WAS ALL FUELED
BY THE SENSE THAT
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WE'RE GOING TO DIE AND WHY NOT?
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ISN'T THAT THE REASON FOR US TO
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BRING OUR BEST TO THIS MOMENT?
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NARRATOR: "A GOOD WRITER
SHOULD KNOW
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NEAR TO EVERYTHING AS POSSIBLE,"
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HEMINGWAY WROTE.
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"NATURALLY HE WILL NOT,"
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BUT HE SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF
LEARNING SO FAST
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AND REMEMBERING SO MUCH
THAT HE SEEMS TO HAVE
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BEEN BORN WITH KNOWLEDGE
NONETHELESS.
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HE LIKED TO CALL HIMSELF PAPA
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AND HIS APPARENT EXPERTISE
IN EVERYTHING
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WAS PART OF HIS MAGIC
ON THE PRINTED PAGE,
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THOUGH IN REAL LIFE,
SOME OF HIS FRIENDS
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WEARIED OF WHAT ONE CALLED HIS
"TENDENCY TO BE AN ORACLE."
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HEMINGWAY SAW IT AS HIS DUTY
TO PASS ON TO THE WORLD
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AS MUCH OF WHAT HE'D LEARNED
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ABOUT THE RIGHT WAY
TO DO THINGS AS HE COULD--
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HOW TO ORDER A GOOD FRENCH MEAL,
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FIRE A MACHINE GUN, BAIT A HOOK,
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MAKE LOVE TO A WOMAN--
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OR APPRECIATE WHAT A MATADOR
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WAS DOING IN THE BULLRING.
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[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"EL TORITO MIX 3" PLAYING]
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MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
THE BULLFIGHT IS NOT A SPORT
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IN THE ANGLO-SAXON
SENSE OF THE WORD.
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THAT IS, IT IS NOT
AN EQUAL CONTEST
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OR AN ATTEMPT AT
AN EQUAL CONTEST
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BETWEEN A BULL AND A MAN.
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RATHER, IT IS A TRAGEDY;
THE DEATH OF THE BULL,
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WHICH IS PLAYED, MORE OR LESS
WELL, BY THE BULL
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AND THE MAN INVOLVED
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AND IN WHICH THERE IS
DANGER FOR THE MAN
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BUT CERTAIN DEATH
FOR THE ANIMAL.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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[VARGAS LLOSA SPEAKING SPANISH]
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NARRATOR: THE BOOK HEMINGWAY
WAS WORKING ON
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WHEN HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED
INTO THEIR NEW HOUSE IN KEY WEST
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WAS "DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON."
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IT WAS A NEW KIND OF JOURNALISM,
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IN WHICH HE WAS THE CENTRAL
CHARACTER, "THE AUTHOR,"
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WHO EXPLAINS TO
A FICTIONAL "OLD LADY"
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EVERYTHING HE HAS LEARNED
OVER THE YEARS
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ABOUT THE RITUAL
OF BULLFIGHTING--
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AND ABOUT SPAIN, THE COUNTRY
HE'D COME TO LOVE
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AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HIS OWN.
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[DAVID CIERI'S
"QUE RICO" PLAYING]
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MANDEL: BACK WHEN HE FIRST
BECAME ATTACHED
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TO SCRIBNER'S PUBLISHING HOUSE,
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HIS VERY FIRST LETTER
TO HIS EDITOR WAS,
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"I WANT TO WRITE A BIG BOOK
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ABOUT THE BULLFIGHT,
WITH PICTURES."
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HE READ AND READ
AND READ AND READ
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AND READ ABOUT BULLFIGHTING,
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IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH.
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AND HE LEARNED TO READ THE BULL.
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THE BULL IS A TEXT.
YOU HAVE TO READ IT
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00:14:08,986 --> 00:14:10,436
AND SAY, "THESE ARE
HIS STRENGTHS."
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"THESE ARE HIS WEAKNESSES."
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"THIS IS WHERE I CAN USE IT."
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"THIS IS WHERE I CAN
DOMINATE IT."
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"THIS IS WHAT I BETTER
STAY AWAY FROM."
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NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY UNDERSTOOD
THAT MANY AMERICANS
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WOULD FIND
BULLFIGHTING ABHORRENT,
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CONVINCED OF ITS CRUELTY.
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HE WANTED TO HELP THEM
GET BEYOND THAT, HE SAID,
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SO THAT THEY COULD EXPERIENCE
"TRULY WHAT YOU REALLY FELT
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RATHER THAN WHAT YOU WERE
SUPPOSED TO FEEL."
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MANDEL: THE BULLFIGHTER GETS
TO USE ALL OF HIS INTELLIGENCE
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AND ALL OF HIS CRAFT
ON THE BULL.
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AND, IF IT ALL WORKS
VERY, VERY WELL,
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IT MAKES A VERY
BEAUTIFUL BULLFIGHT
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WHERE THE MAN IS TRIUMPHANT
AND THE BULL GETS KILLED.
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THAT'S THE MAIN THING THAT
HAPPENS IN THE BULLFIGHT,
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IS THAT THE BULL
HAS TO GET KILLED.
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THAT'S PREDESTINED.
SO, YOU HAVE PREDESTINATION
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00:15:09,046 --> 00:15:11,666
AND YOU HAVE A POWERFUL FORCE
THAT'S BROUGHT FROM
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A HIGH PLACE TO A LOW PLACE.
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YOU HAVE TRAGEDY.
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THAT'S THE CLASSICAL DEFINITION
OF TRAGEDY.
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[MANUEL PONCE'S
"FOLIES D'ESPAGNE" PLAYING]
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MAN AS HEMINGWAY: I KNOW ONLY
THAT WHAT IS MORAL
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IS WHAT YOU FEEL GOOD AFTER
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AND WHAT IS IMMORAL IS
WHAT YOU FEEL BAD AFTER
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AND JUDGED BY THESE
MORAL STANDARDS,
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WHICH I DO NOT DEFEND,
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THE BULLFIGHT IS
VERY MORAL TO ME
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BECAUSE I FEEL VERY FINE
WHILE IT IS GOING ON
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AND HAVE A FEELING
OF LIFE AND DEATH
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AND MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY,
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00:15:51,847 --> 00:15:59,027
AND AFTER IT IS OVER, I FEEL
VERY SAD BUT VERY FINE.
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NARRATOR: WRITING "DEATH IN
THE AFTERNOON" TOOK HEMINGWAY
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THE BETTER PART OF 5 YEARS--
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AND HE SAID HE'D WISHED
HE'D HAD 10.
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HE BELIEVED IT WAS
"MAYBE THE BEST BOOK YET,"
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HE TOLD A FRIEND, AND IT WAS
GENERALLY WELL-RECEIVED:
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H.L. MENCKEN CALLED IT
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"AN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE PIECE
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"OF EXPOSITORY WRITING...
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"FULL OF THE VIVIDNESS
OF SOMETHING REALLY
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SEEN, FELT, EXPERIENCED."
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BUT OTHER CRITICS
WERE DISAPPOINTED.
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IN A DISMISSIVE "NEW REPUBLIC"
REVIEW TITLED
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"BULL IN THE AFTERNOON,"
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THE CRITIC MAX EASTMAN
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DISMISSED BULLFIGHTING
AS NOTHING MORE THAN
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RITUALIZED CRUELTY--
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AND SUGGESTED HEMINGWAY HIMSELF
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WAS INSECURE IN HIS MANHOOD,
GUILTY OF
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"WEARING FALSE HAIR
ON HIS CHEST."
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HEMINGWAY WAS LIVID.
4 YEARS LATER,
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HE WOULD CORNER EASTMAN,
TEARING OPEN HIS OWN SHIRT
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TO SHOW HOW MUCH HAIR
GREW ON HIS CHEST,
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AND SHOUTING, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN
ACCUSING ME OF IMPOTENCE?"
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BEFORE SLAPPING THE CRITIC
WITH A BOOK.
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[KOP É TIATIE CAC'S
"AKAMBA" PLAYING]
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MAN AS HEMINGWAY: IT IS
PLEASANT TO HUNT SOMETHING
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THAT YOU WANT VERY MUCH
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OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME,
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BEING OUTWITTED, OUTMANEUVERED,
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00:17:31,602 --> 00:17:34,332
AND FAILING AT THE END
OF EACH DAY,
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BUT HAVING THE HUNT AND KNOWING
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EVERY TIME YOU ARE OUT
THAT, SOONER OR LATER,
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YOUR LUCK WILL CHANGE
AND THAT YOU WILL GET
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THE CHANCE THAT YOU ARE SEEKING.
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[GUNSHOT]
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NARRATOR:
EVER SINCE HE WAS A BOY,
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HEMINGWAY HAD HOPED TO GO
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ON A HUNTING SAFARI
IN EAST AFRICA,
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JUST AS HIS HERO
THEODORE ROOSEVELT HAD.
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IN LATE 1933,
PAULINE'S GENEROUS UNCLE GUS
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00:18:01,528 --> 00:18:06,778
PROVIDED THE ENORMOUS SUM
WITH WHICH TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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00:18:06,913 --> 00:18:08,883
TO SERVE AS
THE HEMINGWAYS' GUIDE,
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THEY HIRED PHILIP PERCIVAL,
WHO AS A YOUNG MAN
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00:18:12,021 --> 00:18:14,921
HAD BEEN PART OF
THE ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION.
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00:18:15,059 --> 00:18:17,859
CHARLES THOMPSON, A FRIEND
AND FISHING COMPANION
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00:18:17,958 --> 00:18:21,098
FROM KEY WEST,
CAME ALONG AS WELL.
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DURING THE TWO-MONTH SAFARI,
THE HEMINGWAY PARTY
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WOULD SHOOT 5 LIONS,
4 CAPE BUFFALO,
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TWO RHINO, TWO LEOPARDS,
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5 CHEETAHS, A HOST OF
GAZELLES AND ANTELOPE
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00:18:35,562 --> 00:18:36,632
WITH WHICH TO FEED THE CAMP,
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00:18:36,770 --> 00:18:38,700
AND 44 HYENAS FOR WHAT
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HEMINGWAY CALLED "AMUSEMENT."
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DUDLEY: AFRICA, FOR HEMINGWAY,
PROVIDED THE PERFECT SPACE
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WITHIN WHICH HE COULD EXERCISE
HIS HYPER-MASCULINE MUSCLES;
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WHERE HE COULD BE THE "GREAT
WHITE CONQUERING HERO," UH,
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AT A TIME WHERE,
AT LEAST, IN SOME SENSE,
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THAT WHOLE PERSONA WAS
COMING UNDER FIRE HERE,
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00:18:58,758 --> 00:19:01,038
BACK HERE IN AMERICA.
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00:19:01,174 --> 00:19:05,944
WOLFF: I THINK IN SOME WAYS
HE ESCAPED INTO HUNTING.
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I THINK HE REALLY LOVED IT
FROM HIS EARLIEST DAYS
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AND I BE...BELIEVE THAT,
THAT PASSION WAS SINCERE
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00:19:13,980 --> 00:19:16,470
AND NOT JUST A, A POSE.
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00:19:16,603 --> 00:19:20,883
BUT I WILL ADMIT
THAT IT PUZZLES ME A BIT
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THAT HAVING SEEN SO MUCH
VIOLENCE, SO MUCH KILLING,
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NOT JUST DEATH BUT KILLING,
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00:19:30,962 --> 00:19:34,862
THE PLEASURE IN KILLING
IS A MYSTERY TO ME.
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00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:37,761
I DON'T--I, I DON'T
UNDERSTAND IT.
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00:19:39,661 --> 00:19:42,801
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: I DID NOTHING
THAT HAD NOT BEEN DONE TO ME.
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00:19:42,974 --> 00:19:47,054
I HAD BEEN SHOT AND I HAD BEEN
CRIPPLED AND GOTTEN AWAY.
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00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:50,806
I EXPECTED, ALWAYS, TO BE KILLED
BY ONE THING OR ANOTHER
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00:19:50,913 --> 00:19:54,193
AND I, TRULY, DID NOT
MIND THAT ANY MORE.
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00:19:54,331 --> 00:19:57,891
SINCE I STILL LOVED TO HUNT, I
RESOLVED THAT I WOULD ONLY SHOOT
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00:19:58,024 --> 00:20:00,414
AS LONG AS I COULD KILL CLEANLY,
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00:20:00,544 --> 00:20:04,624
AND AS SOON AS I LOST THAT
ABILITY, I WOULD STOP.
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00:20:07,136 --> 00:20:08,966
NARRATOR: THINGS DID NOT
ALWAYS GO WELL,
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00:20:09,138 --> 00:20:13,138
[GUNSHOT]
AND HE OFTEN SHOT BADLY.
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00:20:13,315 --> 00:20:16,835
HE SUFFERED AN ATTACK OF
AMOEBIC DYSENTERY SO SEVERE
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00:20:17,008 --> 00:20:20,008
HE HAD TO BE AIRLIFTED
PAST THE SNOW-CAPPED PEAK
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00:20:20,149 --> 00:20:22,879
OF MOUNT KILIMANJARO TO NAIROBI
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00:20:23,014 --> 00:20:26,984
AND KEPT THERE FOR A WEEK
UNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE.
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00:20:29,711 --> 00:20:30,751
BUT DESPITE IT ALL,
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00:20:30,884 --> 00:20:32,374
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CONTINENT
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ENTHRALLED HIM
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00:20:33,887 --> 00:20:35,717
AND HE TOOK DETAILED NOTES,
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00:20:35,855 --> 00:20:37,025
PLANNING TO TURN THEM INTO
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00:20:37,166 --> 00:20:39,816
ANOTHER WORK OF NONFICTION.
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00:20:40,756 --> 00:20:42,236
"I NEVER KNEW OF
A MORNING IN AFRICA
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00:20:42,379 --> 00:20:43,549
"WHEN I WOKE THAT I WAS
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NOT HAPPY," HE WOULD WRITE.
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00:20:46,348 --> 00:20:50,528
HE LOVED THE LANDSCAPE,
THE BLUE OVER-ARCHING SKY,
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00:20:50,697 --> 00:20:53,937
THE TEEMING WILDLIFE--ABOVE ALL,
354
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,570
THE ISOLATION HE CRAVED
BUT HAD RARELY FOUND AT HOME.
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00:20:58,705 --> 00:21:01,045
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"LA PLENTITUD MIX 2" PLAYING]
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00:21:01,190 --> 00:21:02,360
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
ALL I WANTED TO DO NOW
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00:21:02,468 --> 00:21:05,018
WAS GET BACK TO AFRICA.
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00:21:05,125 --> 00:21:07,535
WE HAD NOT LEFT IT YET,
359
00:21:07,714 --> 00:21:09,064
BUT WHEN I WOULD
WAKE IN THE NIGHT,
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00:21:09,233 --> 00:21:13,863
I WOULD LIE, LISTENING,
HOMESICK FOR IT ALREADY.
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00:21:15,964 --> 00:21:17,554
I LOVED THE COUNTRY
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00:21:17,655 --> 00:21:19,165
SO THAT I WAS AS HAPPY
AS YOU ARE
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00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:22,142
AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN WITH
A WOMAN THAT YOU REALLY LOVE,
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00:21:22,281 --> 00:21:26,701
WHEN, EMPTY, YOU FEEL IT
WELLING UP AGAIN...
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00:21:28,563 --> 00:21:33,083
AND THERE IT IS AND YOU CAN
NEVER HAVE IT ALL
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00:21:33,188 --> 00:21:36,918
AND YET WHAT THERE IS, NOW,
YOU CAN HAVE,
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00:21:37,088 --> 00:21:40,328
AND YOU WANT MORE AND MORE,
TO HAVE,
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00:21:40,471 --> 00:21:43,061
AND BE, AND LIVE IN,
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00:21:43,232 --> 00:21:46,242
TO POSSESS NOW AGAIN FOR ALWAYS,
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00:21:46,339 --> 00:21:50,719
FOR THAT LONG,
SUDDEN-ENDED ALWAYS.
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00:21:52,172 --> 00:21:55,212
I HAD LOVED COUNTRY ALL MY LIFE;
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00:21:55,348 --> 00:21:58,208
THE COUNTRY WAS ALWAYS
BETTER THAN THE PEOPLE.
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00:21:58,351 --> 00:22:02,911
I COULD ONLY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE
A VERY FEW AT A TIME.
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00:22:05,634 --> 00:22:07,984
[DUKE ELLINGTON & BUBBER MILEY'S
"THE NEW EAST ST. LOUIS
TOODLE-O" PLAYING]
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00:22:13,642 --> 00:22:16,162
NARRATOR: WHEN THE HEMINGWAYS
RETURNED FROM AFRICA,
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00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:18,270
THE UNITED STATES WAS ENTERING
THE FIFTH YEAR
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00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,300
OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
378
00:22:20,477 --> 00:22:24,447
FEW REGIONS HAD SUFFERED MORE
THAN THE FLORIDA KEYS.
379
00:22:24,619 --> 00:22:27,969
KEY WEST ITSELF WAS
OFFICIALLY BANKRUPT.
380
00:22:28,139 --> 00:22:32,489
8 OF 10
LOCAL RESIDENTS WERE ON RELIEF.
381
00:22:32,661 --> 00:22:36,181
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S
EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
382
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,940
RESOLVED TO TRANSFORM
THE DYING TOWN
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00:22:39,116 --> 00:22:41,736
INTO A TOURIST ATTRACTION--
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00:22:41,877 --> 00:22:44,287
"THE BERMUDA OF FLORIDA."
385
00:22:45,329 --> 00:22:49,509
THE ONCE-SLEEPY STREETS
SOON BUSTLED WITH VISITORS,
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00:22:49,644 --> 00:22:51,234
THOUSANDS OF THEM.
387
00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:53,510
THEY WANDERED
ONTO HEMINGWAY'S LAWN,
388
00:22:53,648 --> 00:22:57,068
PEERED IN THE WINDOWS,
KNOCKED AT THE DOOR.
389
00:22:57,203 --> 00:22:58,833
TO KEEP THEM OUT,
HE HAD A BRICK WALL
390
00:22:58,998 --> 00:23:01,758
BUILT AROUND HIS PROPERTY.
391
00:23:01,897 --> 00:23:03,137
[SHIP'S HORN BLOWING]
392
00:23:03,312 --> 00:23:05,212
TO GET AWAY--
AND GET IN MORE FISHING--
393
00:23:05,349 --> 00:23:07,939
HE SAILED OFTEN
TO HAVANA, CUBA--
394
00:23:08,076 --> 00:23:11,696
SOME 100 MILES ACROSS
THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA--
395
00:23:11,838 --> 00:23:13,498
WHERE HE HOLED UP
FOR WEEKS AT A TIME
396
00:23:13,668 --> 00:23:19,568
AT THE SEVILLA BILTMORE HOTEL
IN THE HEART OF THE OLD CITY,
397
00:23:19,708 --> 00:23:22,778
WRITING IN THE MORNING,
DRINKING IN THE AFTERNOONS
398
00:23:22,918 --> 00:23:26,368
AT HIS FAVORITE BAR,
LA FLORIDITA.
399
00:23:31,789 --> 00:23:34,339
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
THE GULF STREAM AND THE OTHER
GREAT OCEAN CURRENTS
400
00:23:34,447 --> 00:23:37,487
ARE THE LAST WILD COUNTRY
THERE IS LEFT.
401
00:23:38,693 --> 00:23:41,453
ONCE YOU ARE OUT OF SIGHT OF
LAND AND OF THE OTHER BOATS,
402
00:23:41,592 --> 00:23:44,462
YOU ARE MORE ALONE THAN
YOU CAN EVER BE HUNTING
403
00:23:44,595 --> 00:23:47,935
AND THE SEA IS THE SAME
AS IT HAS BEEN
404
00:23:48,081 --> 00:23:50,121
SINCE BEFORE MEN EVER
WENT ON IT IN BOATS.
405
00:23:52,223 --> 00:23:53,543
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT FISH
LIVE IN IT,
406
00:23:53,639 --> 00:23:57,439
OR HOW GREAT SIZE THEY REACH
OR WHAT AGE.
407
00:23:57,574 --> 00:24:01,094
WHEN YOU ARE DRIFTING,
OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND,
408
00:24:01,232 --> 00:24:08,242
FISHING 4 LINES, 60, 80,
100, AND 150 FATHOMS DOWN,
409
00:24:08,377 --> 00:24:11,477
IN WATER THAT IS
700 FATHOMS DEEP,
410
00:24:11,622 --> 00:24:13,902
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT
MAY TAKE THE SMALL TUNA
411
00:24:14,073 --> 00:24:16,323
THAT YOU USE FOR BAIT,
AND EVERY TIME
412
00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:19,145
THE LINE STARTS TO
RUN OFF THE REEL,
413
00:24:19,285 --> 00:24:22,735
SLOWLY FIRST, THEN WITH
A SCREAM OF THE CLICK
414
00:24:22,909 --> 00:24:25,499
AS THE ROD BENDS
AND YOU FEEL IT DOUBLE
415
00:24:25,636 --> 00:24:28,086
AND THE HUGE WEIGHT OF
THE FRICTION OF THE LINE
416
00:24:28,190 --> 00:24:29,780
RUSHING THROUGH THAT
DEPTH OF WATER
417
00:24:29,916 --> 00:24:36,266
WHILE YOU PUMP AND REEL,
PUMP AND REEL, PUMP AND REEL,
418
00:24:36,405 --> 00:24:38,475
TRYING TO GET THE BELLY
OUT OF THE LINE
419
00:24:38,615 --> 00:24:41,615
BEFORE THE FISH JUMPS,
420
00:24:41,721 --> 00:24:46,901
THERE IS ALWAYS A THRILL THAT
NEEDS NO DANGER TO MAKE IT REAL.
421
00:24:49,626 --> 00:24:52,076
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY HAD
A 38-FOOT FISHING BOAT
422
00:24:52,249 --> 00:24:53,769
CUSTOM BUILT FOR HIMSELF--
423
00:24:53,940 --> 00:24:55,600
"A STURDY BOAT," HE WROTE,
424
00:24:55,701 --> 00:24:57,811
"SWEET IN ANY KIND OF SEA."
425
00:24:57,944 --> 00:25:02,294
HE NAMED HER "PILAR," ONE OF
HIS NICKNAMES FOR PAULINE,
426
00:25:02,397 --> 00:25:05,637
AND HE SPENT WEEKS SAILING
THE WATERS OFF KEY WEST
427
00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:07,440
AND THE GULF STREAM OFF CUBA
428
00:25:07,540 --> 00:25:09,990
AND AROUND BIMINI
IN THE BAHAMAS,
429
00:25:10,129 --> 00:25:13,479
IN SEARCH OF GOOD TIMES
AND GIANT FISH.
430
00:25:13,581 --> 00:25:15,961
[GERARDO MART ÍNEZ'S
"ROM ÁNTICA MUJER" PLAYING]
431
00:25:28,457 --> 00:25:31,977
PATRICK: THAT WAS
SHEER HAPPINESS FOR HIM.
432
00:25:32,151 --> 00:25:36,221
I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT
SEEING THE FISH COME
433
00:25:36,362 --> 00:25:40,712
IS LIKE SEEING A HUGE ELEPHANT
OR A TIGER CERTAINLY
434
00:25:40,849 --> 00:25:43,019
EMERGE FROM THE SEA.
435
00:25:43,162 --> 00:25:44,472
YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WARNING.
436
00:25:44,646 --> 00:25:46,576
THEY'RE JUST SUDDENLY THERE,
YOU KNOW.
437
00:25:46,717 --> 00:25:48,547
AND THAT...THAT I THINK
438
00:25:48,685 --> 00:25:51,515
WAS A THRILL THAT
HE NEVER GOT ENOUGH OF.
439
00:25:54,587 --> 00:25:56,757
NARRATOR: MOST OF THE PASSENGERS
ABOARD THE "PILAR"
440
00:25:56,900 --> 00:26:00,770
WERE OLD FRIENDS LIKE
THE POET ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
441
00:26:00,904 --> 00:26:03,354
AND THE NOVELIST JOHN DOS PASSOS
442
00:26:03,458 --> 00:26:07,218
AND HEMINGWAY'S LONG-TIME
EDITOR MAXWELL PERKINS.
443
00:26:07,358 --> 00:26:10,218
BUT THERE WERE OFTEN
NEW PEOPLE ABOARD, TOO,
444
00:26:10,361 --> 00:26:12,611
YACHTSMEN
AND BIG-GAME FISHERMEN,
445
00:26:12,743 --> 00:26:16,063
RICH MEN AND THEIR WIVES
DRAWN TO AMERICA'S
446
00:26:16,195 --> 00:26:18,845
MOST CELEBRATED WRITER,
AS WELL AS
447
00:26:18,956 --> 00:26:24,266
ARNOLD GINGRICH, EDITOR OF A NEW
MEN'S MAGAZINE CALLED "ESQUIRE,"
448
00:26:24,410 --> 00:26:27,210
WHO PAID HEMINGWAY HANDSOMELY
FOR A NEW COLUMN
449
00:26:27,378 --> 00:26:30,138
ABOUT HUNTING AND FISHING
AND ANYTHING ELSE
450
00:26:30,278 --> 00:26:32,658
THAT HAPPENED TO CROSS HIS MIND.
451
00:26:36,215 --> 00:26:38,975
WHEREVER HE WAS,
WHATEVER HE WAS DOING,
452
00:26:39,114 --> 00:26:42,434
ALCOHOL FUELED EVERYTHING.
453
00:26:42,566 --> 00:26:44,426
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
I HAVE DRUNK SINCE I WAS 15
454
00:26:44,568 --> 00:26:48,118
AND FEW THINGS HAVE
GIVEN ME MORE PLEASURE.
455
00:26:48,261 --> 00:26:50,331
WHEN YOU WORK HARD ALL DAY
WITH YOUR HEAD
456
00:26:50,470 --> 00:26:52,780
AND KNOW YOU MUST WORK
AGAIN THE NEXT DAY,
457
00:26:52,921 --> 00:26:55,131
WHAT ELSE CAN CHANGE YOUR IDEAS
AND MAKE THEM
458
00:26:55,268 --> 00:26:58,058
RUN ON A DIFFERENT PLANE
LIKE WHISKY?
459
00:26:58,237 --> 00:27:00,617
[SIDNEY BECHET'S
"SOBBIN' AND CRYIN'" PLAYING]
460
00:27:00,757 --> 00:27:03,237
KARR: I BELIEVE THAT THE
TERRIBLE THING ABOUT ALCOHOL,
461
00:27:03,414 --> 00:27:06,384
FOR WRITERS, IS THAT
IT WORKS, AT FIRST.
462
00:27:06,555 --> 00:27:09,415
THAT IT WORKS GREAT.
YOU'RE ANXIOUS.
463
00:27:09,524 --> 00:27:11,184
YOU'RE WOUND UP
AT THE END OF THE DAY.
464
00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:13,179
YOU HAVE NO WAY TO CALM DOWN.
465
00:27:13,321 --> 00:27:15,881
YOU HAVE A FEW POPS
AND YOU FEEL BETTER.
466
00:27:16,911 --> 00:27:19,401
NARRATOR: ONCE ON BIMINI,
A WEALTHY YACHTSMAN,
467
00:27:19,499 --> 00:27:21,739
DRUNK AND BELLIGERENT,
CALLED HEMINGWAY
468
00:27:21,916 --> 00:27:24,366
A "PHONY" AND A "BIG FAT SLOB."
469
00:27:24,504 --> 00:27:28,584
HEMINGWAY, JUST AS DRUNK,
KNOCKED HIM COLD.
470
00:27:28,750 --> 00:27:31,480
WORD SPREAD FAST
ACROSS THE ISLAND.
471
00:27:31,615 --> 00:27:34,575
"WHEN ANYONE IS TIGHT HERE
OR FEELS DANGEROUS,"
472
00:27:34,687 --> 00:27:36,137
HEMINGWAY TOLD A FRIEND,
473
00:27:36,275 --> 00:27:39,445
"THEY ASK ME TO FIGHT."
474
00:27:39,623 --> 00:27:43,353
HEMINGWAY LET IT BE KNOWN
THAT HE WOULD PAY $250
475
00:27:43,489 --> 00:27:46,979
TO ANYONE WHO COULD STAY WITH
HIM FOR 3 ROUNDS.
476
00:27:47,113 --> 00:27:50,193
NO ONE EVER CLAIMED THE MONEY.
477
00:27:50,323 --> 00:27:55,233
KARR: I THINK THE MASCULINITY
MUST HAVE BEEN SO CONSTRICTING.
478
00:27:55,363 --> 00:27:57,333
HE'S DRAWN TO ALL THESE
BIG, BUTCH THINGS,
479
00:27:57,468 --> 00:28:01,958
HE COULD HIT SOMEBODY AND THEY'D
FEEL THE PUNCH, OR WHATEVER.
480
00:28:02,059 --> 00:28:04,539
IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE WEARYING.
481
00:28:06,029 --> 00:28:10,379
EDNA O'BRIEN: I THINK ORDINARY
LIFE WAS ANATHEMA TO HIM.
482
00:28:11,862 --> 00:28:14,802
IT HAD TO BE A LIFE OF ADVENTURE
483
00:28:14,969 --> 00:28:19,489
AND THAT ADVENTURE WAS IN LIEU,
IF THAT'S THE RIGHT WORD,
484
00:28:19,594 --> 00:28:24,704
OF A DEEP-SEATED
LONELINESS AND DEPRESSION.
485
00:28:26,912 --> 00:28:30,672
MAN: HE HAS BECOME
THE LEGENDARY HEMINGWAY.
486
00:28:30,812 --> 00:28:33,472
HE APPEARS TO HAVE
TURNED INTO A COMPOSITE
487
00:28:33,573 --> 00:28:35,543
OF ALL THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS--
488
00:28:35,679 --> 00:28:38,539
SUNBURNED FROM SNOWS, ON SKIS;
489
00:28:38,682 --> 00:28:42,512
IN FISHING GET-UP, BURNED DARK
FROM THE HOT CARIBBEAN;
490
00:28:42,686 --> 00:28:45,476
THE HANDSOME, STALWART HUNTER
CROUCHED SMILING
491
00:28:45,585 --> 00:28:48,925
OVER THE CARCASS OF
SOME DEAD BEAST.
492
00:28:49,072 --> 00:28:52,632
SUCH A MAN COULD NOT HAVE
WRITTEN HEMINGWAY'S EARLY BOOKS.
493
00:28:52,765 --> 00:28:56,035
IT IS HARD NOT TO WONDER
WHETHER HE HAS NOT, HUNTING,
494
00:28:56,182 --> 00:28:58,842
BROUGHT DOWN AN EVEN
GREATER VICTIM.
495
00:29:00,083 --> 00:29:01,333
"THE NEW REPUBLIC."
496
00:29:07,055 --> 00:29:09,775
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
NARRATIVE THAT IS EXCITING
AND STILL IS LITERATURE
497
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,850
IS VERY RARE.
498
00:29:12,026 --> 00:29:15,856
YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE COUNTRY,
NOT DESCRIBE IT.
499
00:29:16,030 --> 00:29:19,270
IT IS AS HARD TO DO
AS PAINT A CEZANNE--
500
00:29:19,412 --> 00:29:22,212
AND I'M THE ONLY BASTARD
RIGHT NOW WHO CAN DO IT.
501
00:29:24,314 --> 00:29:26,734
NARRATOR: IN 1935,
HEMINGWAY PUBLISHED
502
00:29:26,868 --> 00:29:28,768
"GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA,"
503
00:29:28,905 --> 00:29:31,315
A NONFICTION ACCOUNT
OF HIS SAFARI,
504
00:29:31,459 --> 00:29:35,389
IN WHICH HE WAS AGAIN
THE CENTRAL CHARACTER.
505
00:29:35,497 --> 00:29:37,087
THE BOOK IS
THE SUSPENSEFUL STORY
506
00:29:37,223 --> 00:29:40,783
OF HIS MONTH-LONG COMPETITION
WITH HIS HUNTING COMPANION
507
00:29:40,917 --> 00:29:44,747
TO KILL THE GREATER KUDU
WITH THE LONGEST HORNS.
508
00:29:44,852 --> 00:29:47,162
[BACH'S
"PARTITIA FOR SOLO VIOLIN NO.1
IN B MINOR V SARABANDE
VARIATION 1" PLAYING]
509
00:29:47,302 --> 00:29:48,822
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
I LOOKED AT HIM,
510
00:29:48,959 --> 00:29:50,649
BIG, LONG-LEGGED,
511
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,719
A SMOOTH GRAY WITH
THE WHITE STRIPES
512
00:29:52,894 --> 00:29:55,594
AND THE GREAT, CURLING,
SWEEPING HORNS,
513
00:29:55,690 --> 00:29:59,590
BROWN AS WALNUT MEATS,
AND IVORY POINTED,
514
00:29:59,763 --> 00:30:03,663
AT THE BIG EARS AND THE GREAT,
LOVELY, HEAVY-MANED NECK,
515
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:06,182
THE WHITE CHEVRON
BETWEEN HIS EYES
516
00:30:06,321 --> 00:30:08,631
AND THE WHITE OF HIS MUZZLE,
517
00:30:08,772 --> 00:30:10,742
AND I STOOPED OVER
AND TOUCHED HIM
518
00:30:10,912 --> 00:30:12,332
TO TRY TO BELIEVE IT.
519
00:30:12,465 --> 00:30:13,945
[DAVID CIERI'S
"DUST RISING" PLAYING]
520
00:30:14,088 --> 00:30:16,258
NARRATOR: IN THE BOOK,
HE PORTRAYED HIMSELF AS BOTH
521
00:30:16,366 --> 00:30:20,716
AN EXPERT ON EVERYTHING
AND A BAD LOSER.
522
00:30:20,853 --> 00:30:23,863
HE COMPLAINED ABOUT WHAT
HEEDLESS AMERICANS HAD DONE
523
00:30:23,994 --> 00:30:26,514
TO SPOIL THEIR OWN LANDSCAPE
524
00:30:26,652 --> 00:30:28,792
AND WAS ALSO GIVEN
TO PONTIFICATING
525
00:30:28,930 --> 00:30:32,620
ON WHICH AMERICAN WRITERS
WERE WORTH READING.
526
00:30:33,935 --> 00:30:36,655
"ALL MODERN AMERICAN
LITERATURE," HE DECLARED,
527
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,530
"COMES FROM ONE BOOK
BY MARK TWAIN
528
00:30:39,665 --> 00:30:42,285
CALLED "HUCKLEBERRY FINN.""
529
00:30:43,980 --> 00:30:46,980
HEMINGWAY WAS ESPECIALLY
PROUD OF HIS NEW BOOK.
530
00:30:47,121 --> 00:30:49,361
BUT IN IT, HE HAD CALLED CRITICS
531
00:30:49,502 --> 00:30:52,992
"THE LICE WHO CRAWL
ON LITERATURE."
532
00:30:53,127 --> 00:30:55,127
THE LICE BIT BACK.
533
00:30:55,301 --> 00:30:58,551
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN DISMISSED
THE BOOK IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
534
00:30:58,684 --> 00:31:02,554
AS "ALL ATTITUDE,
ALL BYRONIC POSTURING."
535
00:31:02,688 --> 00:31:04,408
BERNARD DE VOTO CALLED IT
536
00:31:04,552 --> 00:31:08,352
"A PRETTY SMALL BOOK
FOR A BIG MAN TO WRITE."
537
00:31:10,178 --> 00:31:11,278
THE MOST DISAPPOINTING REVIEW
538
00:31:11,455 --> 00:31:12,455
CAME FROM AMERICA'S
539
00:31:12,629 --> 00:31:14,219
MOST ADMIRED CRITIC,
540
00:31:14,355 --> 00:31:15,625
EDMUND WILSON,
541
00:31:15,735 --> 00:31:17,975
AN EARLY CHAMPION
OF HEMINGWAY'S WORK,
542
00:31:18,152 --> 00:31:21,812
WHO WROTE, "SOMETHING FRIGHTFUL
SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO HEMINGWAY
543
00:31:21,983 --> 00:31:25,233
"AS SOON AS HE BEGINS TO WRITE
IN THE FIRST PERSON.
544
00:31:25,366 --> 00:31:29,266
"HE SEEMS TO LOSE ALL HIS
CAPACITY FOR SELF-CRITICISM
545
00:31:29,404 --> 00:31:31,964
AND HAS A WAY
OF SOUNDING SILLY."
546
00:31:33,477 --> 00:31:36,237
HEMINGWAY TOOK IT HARD.
547
00:31:36,377 --> 00:31:37,517
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
TOOK TO GETTING UP ABOUT
548
00:31:37,654 --> 00:31:39,864
TWO OR SO IN THE MORNING
549
00:31:40,001 --> 00:31:42,761
AND GOING OUT TO
THE LITTLE HOUSE TO WORK.
550
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,110
HAD NEVER HAD THE REAL OLD
MELANCHOLIA BEFORE
551
00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:52,120
AND AM GLAD TO HAVE HAD IT SO
I KNOW WHAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH.
552
00:31:52,255 --> 00:31:56,735
IT MAKES ME MORE TOLERANT OF
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FATHER.
553
00:31:58,054 --> 00:32:01,784
NARRATOR: ERNEST AND PAULINE
HAD BEEN MOST HAPPY IN AFRICA,
554
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,860
BUT BACK HOME HE WAS GROWING
INCREASINGLY DISSATISFIED.
555
00:32:07,028 --> 00:32:10,268
HE WAS GRATEFUL FOR
THE PFEIFFER FAMILY'S GENEROSITY
556
00:32:10,411 --> 00:32:14,901
BUT HE ALSO FOUND HIS FREQUENT
RELIANCE ON IT DEMEANING.
557
00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:20,284
AND HE HAD SECRETLY BEGUN
TO WEARY OF PAULINE, TOO.
558
00:32:22,561 --> 00:32:23,731
"GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA"
MAY NOT HAVE BEEN
559
00:32:23,872 --> 00:32:26,742
A CRITICAL OR
COMMERCIAL SUCCESS,
560
00:32:26,875 --> 00:32:29,775
BUT HIS TIME IN AFRICA
WOULD ALSO INSPIRE
561
00:32:29,913 --> 00:32:32,813
TWO OF HIS
BEST-REMEMBERED SHORT STORIES,
562
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:37,471
EACH OF WHICH CHARTS THE
DISINTEGRATION OF A MARRIAGE.
563
00:32:40,061 --> 00:32:43,001
THE FIRST STORY,
PUBLISHED IN "COSMOPOLITAN,"
564
00:32:43,133 --> 00:32:47,073
WAS "THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE
OF FRANCIS MACOMBER."
565
00:32:47,241 --> 00:32:52,071
FRANCIS AND MARGOT MACOMBER
ARE WEALTHY AMERICANS ON SAFARI.
566
00:32:52,177 --> 00:32:56,767
"THEY HAD A SOUND BASIS OF
UNION," HEMINGWAY WROTE.
567
00:32:56,871 --> 00:33:00,121
"MARGOT WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL
FOR MACOMBER TO DIVORCE
568
00:33:00,288 --> 00:33:04,978
AND MACOMBER HAD TOO MUCH MONEY
FOR MARGOT EVER TO LEAVE HIM."
569
00:33:05,121 --> 00:33:09,091
BUT HER HUSBAND'S MONEY HAD NOT
KEPT HER FAITHFUL TO HIM
570
00:33:09,263 --> 00:33:12,823
AND WHEN HE PANICS WHEN FACED
WITH A CHARGING LION,
571
00:33:12,956 --> 00:33:15,266
SHE DENOUNCES HIM AS A COWARD--
572
00:33:15,372 --> 00:33:16,822
AND SLEEPS WITH THEIR GUIDE,
573
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,930
THE WHITE HUNTER ROBERT WILSON.
574
00:33:22,793 --> 00:33:23,973
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
HE REALIZED THAT HIS WIFE
575
00:33:24,105 --> 00:33:26,655
WAS NOT IN THE OTHER COT
IN THE TENT.
576
00:33:26,797 --> 00:33:29,837
HE LAY AWAKE WITH THAT
KNOWLEDGE FOR TWO HOURS.
577
00:33:31,112 --> 00:33:33,872
AT THE END OF THAT TIME,
HIS WIFE CAME INTO THE TENT,
578
00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:38,152
LIFTED HER MOSQUITO BAR,
AND CRAWLED COZILY INTO BED.
579
00:33:39,189 --> 00:33:42,779
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
MACOMBER ASKED IN THE DARKNESS.
580
00:33:42,882 --> 00:33:46,992
"HELLO," SHE SAID.
"ARE YOU AWAKE?"
581
00:33:47,128 --> 00:33:48,788
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
582
00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:52,478
"I JUST WENT OUT
TO GET A BREATH OF AIR."
583
00:33:52,616 --> 00:33:54,516
"YOU DID, LIKE HELL."
584
00:33:55,895 --> 00:33:58,445
"WHAT DO YOU WANT ME
TO SAY, DARLING?"
585
00:33:58,622 --> 00:34:00,382
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?"
586
00:34:01,832 --> 00:34:03,802
"OUT TO GET A BREATH OF AIR."
587
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,740
"THAT'S A NEW NAME FOR IT.
YOU ARE A BITCH."
588
00:34:11,152 --> 00:34:12,842
"WELL, YOU'RE A COWARD."
589
00:34:17,089 --> 00:34:18,749
VERGHESE: THE MAN STARTS OFF
AS BEING PORTRAYED
590
00:34:18,884 --> 00:34:22,514
AS A SHAMELESS COWARD
BUT FRANKLY,
591
00:34:22,612 --> 00:34:24,272
WHICH OF US WOULDN'T
TAKE OFF RUNNING
592
00:34:24,407 --> 00:34:26,927
WHEN YOU SEE A LION [LAUGHS]
COMING CHARGING AT YOU?
593
00:34:27,065 --> 00:34:28,645
I MEAN, EVEN IF I HAD
A GUN IN MY HAND,
594
00:34:28,756 --> 00:34:30,646
I THINK I WOULD, IT WOULD TAKE
595
00:34:30,827 --> 00:34:32,687
AN EXTRAORDINARY ACT OF WILL
596
00:34:32,794 --> 00:34:34,934
TO STAND THERE
AND SHOOT THIS LION.
597
00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:38,183
AND YET HE'S PORTRAYED
AS THIS SHAMELESS COWARD
598
00:34:38,352 --> 00:34:39,842
AND YOU WONDER HOW
THE STORY'S GOING TO END
599
00:34:40,008 --> 00:34:43,118
AND YOU ACTUALLY FEEL FOR HIM,
600
00:34:43,253 --> 00:34:46,573
AND THEN HE'S ALSO
BEING BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.
601
00:34:47,982 --> 00:34:50,542
EDNA O'BRIEN: AND, CERTAINLY,
THE WOMAN IN THAT STORY
602
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,540
COMES OUT AS A MONSTER.
603
00:34:53,781 --> 00:34:55,471
HEMINGWAY KNEW A LOT
OF WOMEN LIKE THAT;
604
00:34:55,610 --> 00:34:57,410
THERE ARE A LOT OF
WOMEN LIKE THAT.
605
00:34:57,543 --> 00:34:59,793
THERE ARE A LOT
OF MEN LIKE THAT.
606
00:34:59,925 --> 00:35:02,095
THERE'S NOTHING I WOULD CHANGE
IN THAT STORY
607
00:35:02,238 --> 00:35:04,548
BECAUSE HE KNEW
WHEN TO PULL BACK.
608
00:35:04,654 --> 00:35:06,934
HE KNEW HOW MUCH
OF HER FALSENESS,
609
00:35:07,070 --> 00:35:11,180
HOW MUCH OF HER ACIDITY
TO PUT ON THE PAGE.
610
00:35:12,455 --> 00:35:14,105
IT'S A VERY BITTER STORY.
611
00:35:15,596 --> 00:35:17,246
VERGHESE: BUT AT THE END
OF THE STORY, HE FINDS
612
00:35:17,391 --> 00:35:19,981
A DIFFERENT KIND OF COURAGE.
613
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:22,778
IT HAS TO DO WITH
STANDING UP TO HIS WIFE.
614
00:35:22,913 --> 00:35:25,573
AND IT TERRIFIES HER.
615
00:35:25,675 --> 00:35:29,815
NARRATOR: THE NEXT DAY, WHEN
A WOUNDED BUFFALO CHARGES HIM,
616
00:35:29,955 --> 00:35:32,885
MACOMBER STANDS HIS GROUND.
617
00:35:34,062 --> 00:35:35,552
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
WILSON, WHO WAS AHEAD,
618
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,579
WAS KNEELING SHOOTING,
619
00:35:37,756 --> 00:35:39,336
AND MACOMBER, AS HE FIRED,
620
00:35:39,482 --> 00:35:42,932
UNHEARING HIS SHOT IN
THE ROARING OF WILSON'S GUN,
621
00:35:43,106 --> 00:35:48,146
SAW FRAGMENTS LIKE SLATE BURST
FROM THE HUGE BOSS OF THE HORNS,
622
00:35:48,284 --> 00:35:52,124
AND THE HEAD JERKED, HE SHOT
AGAIN AT THE WIDE NOSTRILS
623
00:35:52,253 --> 00:35:56,293
AND SAW THE HORNS JOLT AGAIN
AND FRAGMENTS FLY,
624
00:35:56,430 --> 00:35:59,990
AND HE DID NOT SEE WILSON NOW
AND, AIMING CAREFULLY,
625
00:36:00,123 --> 00:36:03,203
SHOT AGAIN WITH THE BUFFALO'S
HUGE BULK ALMOST ON HIM
626
00:36:03,333 --> 00:36:08,863
AND HIS RIFLE ALMOST LEVEL WITH
THE ON-COMING HEAD, NOSE OUT,
627
00:36:08,994 --> 00:36:10,694
AND HE COULD SEE
THE LITTLE WICKED EYES
628
00:36:10,823 --> 00:36:15,793
AND THE HEAD STARTED TO LOWER
AND HE FELT A SUDDEN WHITE-HOT,
629
00:36:15,966 --> 00:36:20,006
BLINDING FLASH EXPLODE
INSIDE HIS HEAD...
630
00:36:22,145 --> 00:36:24,245
AND THAT WAS ALL HE EVER FELT.
631
00:36:26,805 --> 00:36:28,665
NARRATOR: HIS WIFE HAS SHOT HIM.
632
00:36:28,807 --> 00:36:31,047
SHE SAID IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.
633
00:36:32,155 --> 00:36:34,705
VERGHESE: I'M A BIG BELIEVER
THAT, YOU KNOW,
634
00:36:34,847 --> 00:36:36,847
THE PROCESS OF READING FICTION
AS THE WRITER
635
00:36:36,987 --> 00:36:39,367
PROVIDES YOU SOME OF THE WORDS,
636
00:36:39,507 --> 00:36:41,027
BUT YOU PROVIDE
YOUR IMAGINATION.
637
00:36:41,164 --> 00:36:43,894
AND THE GREAT PLEASURE IS THAT
YOU'RE MAKING THIS MOVIE
638
00:36:44,029 --> 00:36:46,859
AND...AH...IT'S ALWAYS STRIKING
HOW DIFFERENT
639
00:36:46,997 --> 00:36:49,547
OUR MOVIES ARE
AS READERS...AH...SO,
640
00:36:49,690 --> 00:36:51,550
IN MY MIND, THERE'S NO QUESTION
641
00:36:51,692 --> 00:36:53,312
THAT SHE BLEW HIS HEAD OFF.
642
00:36:53,487 --> 00:36:55,657
I HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
643
00:36:58,561 --> 00:37:00,841
NARRATOR: THE SECOND OF
HIS AFRICAN SHORT STORIES,
644
00:37:00,942 --> 00:37:04,772
PUBLISHED IN "ESQUIRE,"
WAS A MASTERPIECE.
645
00:37:04,912 --> 00:37:07,672
IN "THE SNOWS OF
KILIMANJARO," THE ROLES OF
646
00:37:07,846 --> 00:37:10,876
HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE REVERSED.
647
00:37:12,057 --> 00:37:16,057
THE PROTAGONIST IS HARRY WALDEN,
A WRITER ON SAFARI,
648
00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:19,789
DYING OF GANGRENE IN HIS TENT.
649
00:37:19,927 --> 00:37:22,097
AS HE DRIFTS IN AND OUT
OF CONSCIOUSNESS,
650
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,380
HE TALKS WITH HIS WEALTHY WIFE,
651
00:37:24,518 --> 00:37:27,758
WHOSE FORTUNE SUPPORTS THEM
AND WHO LOVES HIM,
652
00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:31,110
BUT WHOM HE SECRETLY
NO LONGER LOVES.
653
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:34,009
HE MUSES ABOUT THE EVENTS
HE HAS LIVED THROUGH
654
00:37:34,113 --> 00:37:36,813
BUT FAILED TO WRITE ABOUT,
655
00:37:36,944 --> 00:37:40,914
AND NOW, WILL NOT LIVE
TO TURN INTO FICTION.
656
00:37:41,051 --> 00:37:44,121
AT FIRST, HE BLAMES HIS WIFE.
657
00:37:45,642 --> 00:37:46,922
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: NONSENSE.
658
00:37:47,057 --> 00:37:49,467
HE HAD DESTROYED
HIS TALENT HIMSELF.
659
00:37:49,612 --> 00:37:53,242
WHY SHOULD HE BLAME THIS WOMAN
BECAUSE SHE KEPT HIM WELL?
660
00:37:53,374 --> 00:37:56,414
HE HAD DESTROYED HIS TALENT
BY NOT USING IT,
661
00:37:56,550 --> 00:38:01,070
BY BETRAYALS OF HIMSELF
AND WHAT HE BELIEVED IN,
662
00:38:01,209 --> 00:38:02,999
BY DRINKING SO MUCH
THAT HE BLUNTED
663
00:38:03,142 --> 00:38:07,632
THE EDGE OF HIS PERCEPTIONS,
BY LAZINESS,
664
00:38:07,768 --> 00:38:10,698
BY SLOTH, AND BY SNOBBERY.
665
00:38:12,048 --> 00:38:14,808
HE HAD SEEN THE WORLD CHANGE.
666
00:38:14,947 --> 00:38:17,047
HE HAD BEEN IN IT
AND HE HAD WATCHED IT
667
00:38:17,225 --> 00:38:19,985
AND IT WAS HIS DUTY
TO WRITE OF IT;
668
00:38:20,125 --> 00:38:22,155
BUT NOW HE NEVER WOULD.
669
00:38:25,095 --> 00:38:27,195
TIM O'BRIEN: "THE SNOWS
OF KILIMANJARO" IS AMONG
670
00:38:27,339 --> 00:38:30,409
MY FAVORITE STORIES OF
HEMINGWAY, MAYBE MY FAVORITE.
671
00:38:30,515 --> 00:38:33,345
IT DEALS WITH WHAT WE'RE ALL
GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH,
672
00:38:33,483 --> 00:38:36,763
WHICH IS OUR OWN DEATHS.
AND, THROUGHOUT IT,
673
00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:40,590
HE'S REVIEWING HIS LIFE.
674
00:38:40,697 --> 00:38:43,357
MUCH AS I NOW, IN MY OLD AGE,
675
00:38:43,493 --> 00:38:45,463
MORE AND MORE
AT TWO IN THE MORNING,
676
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:47,599
REVIEW MY OWN LIFE.
677
00:38:47,704 --> 00:38:49,674
SOMETIMES, FULL OF SELF-HATRED
678
00:38:49,810 --> 00:38:52,160
AND SOMETIMES, FULL OF JOY.
679
00:38:53,538 --> 00:38:58,158
MOST OFTEN, FILLED WITH
DOUBT OF, UH,
680
00:38:58,301 --> 00:39:01,271
WHAT, WHAT COULD I
HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY?
681
00:39:01,442 --> 00:39:03,272
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"LA DESPEDIDA MIX 1" PLAYING]
682
00:39:03,375 --> 00:39:05,265
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
JUST THEN, DEATH HAD COME
683
00:39:05,446 --> 00:39:08,036
AND RESTED ITS HEAD
ON THE FOOT OF THE COT
684
00:39:08,173 --> 00:39:10,213
AND HE COULD SMELL ITS BREATH.
685
00:39:11,728 --> 00:39:13,318
IT MOVED UP CLOSER TO HIM STILL
686
00:39:13,454 --> 00:39:16,154
AND NOW HE COULD NOT
SPEAK TO IT,
687
00:39:16,250 --> 00:39:20,360
AND WHEN IT SAW HE COULD NOT
SPEAK IT CAME A LITTLE CLOSER,
688
00:39:20,496 --> 00:39:23,496
AND NOW HE TRIED TO SEND IT
AWAY WITHOUT SPEAKING,
689
00:39:23,637 --> 00:39:29,057
BUT IT MOVED IN ON HIM SO ITS
WEIGHT WAS ALL UPON HIS CHEST,
690
00:39:29,194 --> 00:39:33,474
AND WHILE IT CROUCHED THERE
AND HE COULD NOT MOVE, OR SPEAK,
691
00:39:33,578 --> 00:39:37,718
HE HEARD THE WOMAN SAY,
"BWANA IS ASLEEP NOW.
692
00:39:37,858 --> 00:39:42,028
TAKE THE COT UP VERY GENTLY
AND CARRY IT INTO THE TENT."
693
00:39:43,415 --> 00:39:46,375
HE COULD NOT SPEAK TO TELL HER
TO MAKE IT GO AWAY
694
00:39:46,522 --> 00:39:51,392
AND IT CROUCHED NOW, HEAVIER,
SO HE COULD NOT BREATHE.
695
00:39:53,252 --> 00:39:56,362
AND THEN, WHILE
THEY LIFTED THE COT,
696
00:39:56,497 --> 00:39:58,087
SUDDENLY IT WAS ALL RIGHT
697
00:39:58,223 --> 00:40:00,983
AND THE WEIGHT WENT
FROM HIS CHEST.
698
00:40:04,574 --> 00:40:06,994
[WOODY GUTHRIE'S "I AIN'T
GOT NO HOME" PLAYING]
699
00:40:08,267 --> 00:40:09,857
♪ MY BROTHERS AND MY SISTERS
700
00:40:10,028 --> 00:40:11,718
♪ ARE STRANDED ON THIS ROAD ♪
701
00:40:11,857 --> 00:40:17,137
♪ A HOT AND DUSTY ROAD THAT
A MILLION FEET HAVE TROD ♪
702
00:40:17,276 --> 00:40:20,896
♪ RICH MAN TOOK MY HOME
AND DROVE ME FROM MY DOOR ♪
703
00:40:21,039 --> 00:40:27,429
♪ AND I AIN'T GOT NO HOME
IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE ♪
704
00:40:27,563 --> 00:40:30,083
NARRATOR: THE DEPRESSION
HAD CONTINUED TO DEEPEN
705
00:40:30,220 --> 00:40:32,570
AND A NEW GENERATION
OF SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS
706
00:40:32,706 --> 00:40:37,496
LEFTIST WRITERS AND CRITICS
NOW DENOUNCED HEMINGWAY.
707
00:40:38,574 --> 00:40:40,894
RATHER THAN FRITTER AWAY
HIS TIME WRITING ABOUT
708
00:40:41,024 --> 00:40:42,544
DRUNKEN EXPATRIATES
709
00:40:42,647 --> 00:40:45,437
AND DISILLUSIONED SURVIVORS
OF THE GREAT WAR,
710
00:40:45,581 --> 00:40:48,031
ABOUT BULLFIGHTS
AND BIG-GAME HUNTING
711
00:40:48,204 --> 00:40:50,074
AND DEEP-SEA FISHING,
712
00:40:50,171 --> 00:40:52,621
THEY INSISTED IT WAS
HIS DUTY AS AN ARTIST
713
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,870
TO DECLARE HIS SOLIDARITY
WITH THE WORKING CLASS.
714
00:40:57,938 --> 00:40:59,938
GRANVILLE HICKS,
EDITOR OF THE COMMUNIST
715
00:41:00,078 --> 00:41:02,428
"NEW MASSES" MAGAZINE,"
DECLARED,
716
00:41:02,563 --> 00:41:05,773
"IN 6 YEARS, HEMINGWAY HAS NOT
PRODUCED A BOOK
717
00:41:05,911 --> 00:41:09,161
EVEN REMOTELY WORTHY
OF HIS TALENTS."
718
00:41:10,157 --> 00:41:11,637
HEMINGWAY WAS UNMOVED.
719
00:41:11,779 --> 00:41:15,229
"THERE IS NO LEFT OR RIGHT
IN WRITING," HE SAID.
720
00:41:15,334 --> 00:41:18,964
"THERE IS ONLY
GOOD AND BAD WRITING."
721
00:41:20,201 --> 00:41:21,861
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: EVERYONE
TRIES TO FRIGHTEN YOU NOW
722
00:41:21,996 --> 00:41:25,656
BY SAYING OR WRITING THAT IF
ONE DOES NOT BECOME A COMMUNIST
723
00:41:25,793 --> 00:41:27,593
OR HAVE A MARXIAN VIEWPOINT,
724
00:41:27,761 --> 00:41:30,941
ONE WILL HAVE NO FRIENDS
AND WILL BE ALONE.
725
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,530
THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT TO BE
ALONE IS SOMETHING DREADFUL;
726
00:41:34,664 --> 00:41:38,014
OR THAT TO NOT HAVE FRIENDS
IS TO BE FEARED.
727
00:41:38,150 --> 00:41:40,260
I WOULD RATHER HAVE
ONE HONEST ENEMY
728
00:41:40,428 --> 00:41:43,288
THAN MOST OF THE FRIENDS
THAT I HAVE KNOWN.
729
00:41:43,431 --> 00:41:45,051
I CANNOT BE A COMMUNIST NOW
730
00:41:45,192 --> 00:41:49,022
BECAUSE I BELIEVE
IN ONLY ONE THING: LIBERTY.
731
00:41:49,161 --> 00:41:52,341
FIRST I WOULD LOOK AFTER MYSELF
AND DO MY WORK.
732
00:41:52,475 --> 00:41:54,885
THEN I WOULD CARE
FOR MY FAMILY.
733
00:41:55,029 --> 00:41:57,269
THEN I WOULD HELP MY NEIGHBOR.
734
00:41:57,376 --> 00:41:59,826
BUT THE STATE I CARE
NOTHING FOR.
735
00:41:59,965 --> 00:42:04,415
ALL THE STATE HAS EVER MEANT
TO ME IS UNJUST TAXATION.
736
00:42:04,556 --> 00:42:08,346
I BELIEVE IN THE ABSOLUTE
MINIMUM OF GOVERNMENT.
737
00:42:11,321 --> 00:42:14,981
NARRATOR: ON LABOR DAY 1935,
ONE OF THE MOST INTENSE
738
00:42:15,084 --> 00:42:18,744
HURRICANES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
HIT FLORIDA
739
00:42:18,881 --> 00:42:24,231
WITH WINDS SAID TO HAVE GUSTED
AT MORE THAN 185 MILES PER HOUR.
740
00:42:24,369 --> 00:42:29,649
AN 18-FOOT STORM SURGE DROWNED
ISLAND AFTER ISLAND.
741
00:42:32,929 --> 00:42:35,039
MORE THAN 400 PEOPLE DIED--
742
00:42:35,173 --> 00:42:39,703
AMONG THEM 259 HOMELESS
VETERANS OF THE GREAT WAR
743
00:42:39,833 --> 00:42:42,843
WHO HAD BEEN SENT SOUTH BY
THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION
744
00:42:43,008 --> 00:42:46,938
TO BUILD HIGHWAY BRIDGES
TO BRING STILL MORE VISITORS
745
00:42:47,081 --> 00:42:49,191
TO THE FLORIDA KEYS.
746
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:51,850
SOME OF THEM HAD BEEN
DRINKING BUDDIES WITH WHOM
747
00:42:52,017 --> 00:42:56,707
HEMINGWAY HAD SWAPPED
WAR STORIES AT SLOPPY JOE'S.
748
00:42:56,815 --> 00:43:01,195
TWO DAYS LATER, HE SAILED NORTH
TO WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR CAMP
749
00:43:01,302 --> 00:43:06,172
AND JOINED SOME 200 VOLUNTEERS
GATHERING UP THE DEAD.
750
00:43:06,342 --> 00:43:08,172
HE BROUGHT A CAMERA.
751
00:43:08,275 --> 00:43:10,065
[CAMERA'S SHUTTER CLICKS]
752
00:43:10,208 --> 00:43:11,868
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
YOU COULD FIND THEM FACE DOWN
753
00:43:11,968 --> 00:43:15,138
AND FACE UP IN THE MANGROVES.
754
00:43:15,282 --> 00:43:17,462
THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF THE DEAD
WERE IN THE TANGLED,
755
00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:20,075
ALWAYS GREEN BUT
NOW BROWN, MANGROVES
756
00:43:20,218 --> 00:43:22,908
BEHIND THE TANK CARS
AND THE WATER TOWERS.
757
00:43:23,877 --> 00:43:27,567
[CAMERA'S SHUTTER CLICKS]
THEY HUNG ON THERE, IN SHELTER,
758
00:43:27,743 --> 00:43:31,643
UNTIL THE WIND AND THE RISING
WATER CARRIED THEM AWAY.
759
00:43:31,781 --> 00:43:34,161
[CAMERA'S SHUTTER CLICKS]
THEY DIDN'T ALL LET GO AT ONCE
760
00:43:34,301 --> 00:43:37,341
BUT ONLY WHEN THEY COULD
HOLD ON NO LONGER.
761
00:43:37,476 --> 00:43:39,546
[CAMERA'S SHUTTER CLICKS]
THEN FURTHER ON, YOU FOUND THEM
762
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:42,930
HIGH IN THE TREES WHERE
THE WATER HAD SWEPT THEM.
763
00:43:43,068 --> 00:43:47,248
[CAMERA'S SHUTTER CLICKS]
YOU FOUND THEM EVERYWHERE
AND IN THE SUN,
764
00:43:47,383 --> 00:43:48,663
ALL OF THEM WERE BEGINNING TO BE
765
00:43:48,798 --> 00:43:51,418
TOO BIG FOR THEIR
BLUE JEANS AND JACKETS
766
00:43:51,559 --> 00:43:54,249
THAT THEY COULD NEVER FILL
WHEN THEY WERE
767
00:43:54,390 --> 00:43:56,460
ON THE BUM AND HUNGRY.
768
00:43:58,808 --> 00:44:01,598
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY WAS
SO ANGERED AT WHAT HE'D SEEN
769
00:44:01,742 --> 00:44:03,262
THAT DESPITE THE SCORN
770
00:44:03,364 --> 00:44:05,504
"NEW MASSES" HAD SHOWN
TOWARD HIM,
771
00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:08,023
WHEN ITS EDITOR ASKED HIM
TO WRITE ABOUT IT,
772
00:44:08,162 --> 00:44:10,302
HE AGREED TO DO IT.
773
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,580
HE HELD THE ROOSEVELT
ADMINISTRATION RESPONSIBLE.
774
00:44:15,894 --> 00:44:18,484
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: I WOULD LIKE
TO MAKE WHOEVER SENT THEM THERE
775
00:44:18,621 --> 00:44:21,311
CARRY JUST ONE OUT
THROUGH THE MANGROVES,
776
00:44:21,451 --> 00:44:25,211
OR TURN ONE OVER THAT LAY
IN THE SUN ALONG THE FILL,
777
00:44:25,352 --> 00:44:28,362
OR TIE 5 TOGETHER
SO THEY WON'T FLOAT OUT,
778
00:44:28,493 --> 00:44:30,013
OR SMELL THAT SMELL YOU THOUGHT
779
00:44:30,150 --> 00:44:33,500
YOU'D NEVER SMELL AGAIN,
WITH LUCK.
780
00:44:34,948 --> 00:44:37,298
NARRATOR: LEFTIST WRITERS
NOW PRAISED HEMINGWAY'S
781
00:44:37,467 --> 00:44:40,467
NEW-FOUND EMPATHY
FOR THE PROLETARIAT:
782
00:44:40,574 --> 00:44:44,034
LINCOLN STEFFENS CONGRATULATED
HIM FOR AT LAST CHOOSING
783
00:44:44,164 --> 00:44:48,344
TO WRITE FOR "THE REAL PEOPLE
OF THE REAL PUBLICATIONS."
784
00:44:48,478 --> 00:44:51,098
[DUKE ELLINGTON & BUBBER MILEY'S
"THE NEW EAST ST. LOUIS
TOODLE-O" PLAYING]
785
00:45:16,817 --> 00:45:18,337
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
SOME MADE THE LONG DROP
786
00:45:18,508 --> 00:45:20,718
FROM THE APARTMENT
OR THE OFFICE WINDOW;
787
00:45:21,926 --> 00:45:24,376
SOME TOOK IT QUIETLY
IN TWO-CAR GARAGES
788
00:45:24,514 --> 00:45:26,074
WITH THE MOTOR RUNNING;
789
00:45:28,380 --> 00:45:29,420
SOME USED THE NATIVE TRADITION
790
00:45:29,554 --> 00:45:32,704
OF THE COLT OR SMITH AND WESSON;
791
00:45:32,799 --> 00:45:36,529
THOSE WELL-CONSTRUCTED
IMPLEMENTS THAT END INSOMNIA,
792
00:45:36,630 --> 00:45:41,910
TERMINATE REMORSE, CURE CANCER,
AVOID BANKRUPTCY,
793
00:45:42,049 --> 00:45:45,049
AND BLAST AN EXIT FROM
INTOLERABLE POSITIONS
794
00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:47,230
BY THE PRESSURE OF A FINGER;
795
00:45:49,436 --> 00:45:51,506
THOSE ADMIRABLE
AMERICAN INSTRUMENTS
796
00:45:51,679 --> 00:45:56,439
SO EASILY CARRIED,
SO SURE OF EFFECT,
797
00:45:56,581 --> 00:45:59,071
SO WELL DESIGNED TO END
THE AMERICAN DREAM
798
00:45:59,204 --> 00:46:02,314
WHEN IT BECOMES A NIGHTMARE,
799
00:46:02,449 --> 00:46:06,039
THEIR ONLY DRAWBACK
THE MESS THEY LEAVE
800
00:46:06,142 --> 00:46:08,392
FOR RELATIVES TO CLEAN UP.
801
00:46:11,044 --> 00:46:13,054
NARRATOR: FEELING THE PRESSURE
TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING
802
00:46:13,149 --> 00:46:17,459
AFTER THE COMMERCIAL FAILURE
OF HIS NONFICTION,
803
00:46:17,602 --> 00:46:19,642
HEMINGWAY TRIED TO
COBBLE TOGETHER A NOVEL
804
00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:23,497
OUT OF TWO SHORT STORIES
AND SOME NEW MATERIAL.
805
00:46:23,642 --> 00:46:26,302
THE RESULT WAS
A TANGLED MELODRAMA ABOUT
806
00:46:26,438 --> 00:46:28,408
DOWN-ON-THEIR-LUCK AMERICANS--
807
00:46:28,578 --> 00:46:30,998
HIS VERSION OF
A PROLETARIAN NOVEL,
808
00:46:31,133 --> 00:46:34,553
CALLED "TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT."
809
00:46:36,138 --> 00:46:37,798
THE CRITICS DIDN'T LIKE IT.
810
00:46:37,933 --> 00:46:39,493
AND IN THE END, HEMINGWAY
811
00:46:39,624 --> 00:46:41,804
DIDN'T MUCH LIKE IT EITHER.
812
00:46:43,076 --> 00:46:45,286
[LEONARDO PADURA
SPEAKING SPANISH]
813
00:47:13,278 --> 00:47:14,938
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"THE GARDEN OF EDEN MIX 3
BASS STEM" PLAYING]
814
00:47:15,039 --> 00:47:17,249
[PEOPLE CHANTING INDISTINCTLY]
815
00:47:20,147 --> 00:47:22,357
[ADOLF HITLER SPEAKING GERMAN]
816
00:47:30,123 --> 00:47:33,573
NARRATOR: ERNEST HEMINGWAY
UNDERSTOOD THE DANGERS
OF FASCISM
817
00:47:33,712 --> 00:47:36,442
AND BELIEVED ADOLF HITLER
WOULD ONE DAY LAUNCH
818
00:47:36,612 --> 00:47:39,482
A EUROPEAN WAR OF CONQUEST.
819
00:47:39,580 --> 00:47:42,140
BUT, AS A DISENCHANTED SURVIVOR
OF THE WAR
820
00:47:42,307 --> 00:47:44,477
THAT HAD BEEN SUPPOSED
TO END ALL WARS,
821
00:47:44,620 --> 00:47:46,550
HE TOLD "ESQUIRE" READERS,
822
00:47:46,691 --> 00:47:48,621
AMERICANS SHOULD TAKE
NO PART IN IT.
823
00:47:50,971 --> 00:47:53,661
"OF THE HELL-BROTH THAT IS
BREWING IN EUROPE
824
00:47:53,801 --> 00:47:56,011
WE HAVE NO NEED
TO DRINK," HE WROTE.
825
00:47:56,149 --> 00:47:59,499
"WE WERE FOOLS TO BE SUCKED IN
ONCE ON A EUROPEAN WAR
826
00:47:59,669 --> 00:48:03,329
AND WE SHOULD NEVER
BE SUCKED IN AGAIN."
827
00:48:03,466 --> 00:48:05,706
[EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE]
828
00:48:09,507 --> 00:48:11,677
BUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING
IN HIS BELOVED SPAIN
829
00:48:11,819 --> 00:48:14,579
WAS BEGINNING TO
CHANGE HIS MIND.
830
00:48:15,754 --> 00:48:19,764
IT WAS NOW BEING TORN APART
BY A CIVIL WAR.
831
00:48:22,106 --> 00:48:26,346
EARLY IN 1936, REACTIONARY
ELEMENTS OF THE ARMY,
832
00:48:26,524 --> 00:48:30,874
EVENTUALLY LED BY A FASCIST
GENERAL NAMED FRANCISCO FRANCO
833
00:48:31,011 --> 00:48:33,601
AND SUPPORTED BY
WEALTHY INDUSTRIALISTS,
834
00:48:33,738 --> 00:48:36,668
GREAT LANDOWNERS,
AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,
835
00:48:36,775 --> 00:48:39,355
JOINED FORCES TO TRY
TO OVERTHROW
836
00:48:39,468 --> 00:48:43,018
THE DULY ELECTED
SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT.
837
00:48:44,749 --> 00:48:47,059
HITLER PROVIDED
FRANCO AND HIS REBELS
838
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,030
WITH BOMBERS AND FIGHTER PLANES
839
00:48:49,133 --> 00:48:52,213
AND GERMAN PILOTS TO FLY THEM.
840
00:48:52,377 --> 00:48:55,997
THEIR GOAL WAS TO TERRORIZE
THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.
841
00:48:57,141 --> 00:48:59,661
THE ITALIAN DICTATOR,
BENITO MUSSOLINI,
842
00:48:59,798 --> 00:49:04,838
DISPATCHED TANKS
AND NEARLY 80,000 TROOPS.
843
00:49:04,976 --> 00:49:09,566
WITHIN WEEKS, FRANCO'S FORCES
HAD SEIZED 1/3 OF THE COUNTRY
844
00:49:09,739 --> 00:49:14,609
FROM THOSE FAITHFUL TO
THE GOVERNMENT--THE LOYALISTS.
845
00:49:15,814 --> 00:49:20,304
THE LOYALISTS' ONLY ALLY WAS
SOVIET PREMIER JOSEF STALIN,
846
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:25,100
WHO WAS EAGER TO BE SEEN AS
THE LEADER OF THE EUROPEAN LEFT.
847
00:49:25,238 --> 00:49:28,278
HE CALLED UPON COMMUNISTS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
848
00:49:28,413 --> 00:49:31,143
TO RALLY VOLUNTEER BRIGADES.
849
00:49:31,278 --> 00:49:35,138
BETWEEN 30,000 AND 40,000 MEN
FROM MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES
850
00:49:35,282 --> 00:49:40,252
WOULD ANSWER THE CALL--INCLUDING
SOME 2,800 AMERICANS
851
00:49:40,356 --> 00:49:44,906
WHO CALLED THEIR OUTFIT
THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE.
852
00:49:47,536 --> 00:49:50,466
HEMINGWAY WAS CERTAIN
THAT SPAIN WAS THE PLACE
853
00:49:50,608 --> 00:49:53,748
WHERE FASCISM HAD TO BE STOPPED.
854
00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:58,133
VAILL: HE SAID TO A FRIEND
IN KEY WEST,
855
00:49:58,271 --> 00:50:00,551
"I'VE GOT THIS GREAT HOUSE,
I'VE GOT THIS BOAT,
856
00:50:00,687 --> 00:50:02,897
"BUT THEY ALL REALLY COME
FROM PAULINE.
857
00:50:03,034 --> 00:50:06,524
"EXCEPT FOR THAT,
I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING."
858
00:50:06,658 --> 00:50:09,348
SO, IN ORDER TO HAVE
SOMETHING NEW TO WRITE,
859
00:50:09,489 --> 00:50:11,109
HE HAD TO HAVE
SOMETHING NEW TO LIVE.
860
00:50:12,768 --> 00:50:14,218
AT THIS JUNCTION IN HIS LIFE,
861
00:50:14,356 --> 00:50:15,316
HEMINGWAY IS LOOKING DESPERATELY
862
00:50:15,460 --> 00:50:16,940
FOR THIS FRESH START.
863
00:50:17,117 --> 00:50:21,117
AND HE THINKS HE WILL
FIND IT IN SPAIN.
864
00:50:23,158 --> 00:50:25,188
NARRATOR: "FOR A LONG TIME,"
HEMINGWAY WROTE,
865
00:50:25,332 --> 00:50:30,652
"ME AND MY CONSCIENCE BOTH HAVE
KNOWN I HAVE TO GO TO SPAIN."
866
00:50:34,962 --> 00:50:38,142
WOMAN AS MARTHA GELLHORN:
JANUARY 8, 1937.
867
00:50:38,242 --> 00:50:39,482
DEAR MRS. ROOSEVELT,
868
00:50:39,622 --> 00:50:41,622
I'M IN KEY WEST.
869
00:50:42,832 --> 00:50:45,322
TO DATE IT'S THE BEST THING
I'VE FOUND IN AMERICA.
870
00:50:45,490 --> 00:50:50,810
IT'S HOT AND FALLING TO PIECES
AND PEOPLE SEEM HAPPY.
871
00:50:52,152 --> 00:50:55,192
I SEE HEMINGWAY HERE,
WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT
872
00:50:55,328 --> 00:50:58,638
WRITING DIALOGUE, I THINK,
THAN ANYONE WRITING IN ENGLISH.
873
00:50:59,849 --> 00:51:04,229
HE'S AN ODD BIRD,
VERY LOVABLE AND FULL OF FIRE
874
00:51:04,371 --> 00:51:06,721
AND A MARVELOUS STORY TELLER.
875
00:51:06,856 --> 00:51:09,196
IN A WRITER THIS IS IMAGINATION,
876
00:51:09,342 --> 00:51:11,452
IN ANYONE ELSE IT'S LYING.
877
00:51:11,585 --> 00:51:13,785
THAT'S WHERE GENIUS COMES IN.
878
00:51:13,932 --> 00:51:16,142
[GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN'S
"OH, LADY BE GOOD" PLAYING]
879
00:51:18,558 --> 00:51:20,628
NARRATOR: WHEN THE WRITER
MARTHA GELLHORN,
880
00:51:20,767 --> 00:51:23,427
A FAMILY FRIEND OF
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT,
881
00:51:23,563 --> 00:51:25,013
INTRODUCED HERSELF
TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY
882
00:51:25,116 --> 00:51:30,046
AT THE BAR IN SLOPPY JOE'S
IN DECEMBER OF 1936,
883
00:51:30,190 --> 00:51:34,710
SHE WAS 28 YEARS OLD,
9 YEARS YOUNGER THAN HE.
884
00:51:35,885 --> 00:51:37,915
VERNA KALE: SHE HAS LONG LEGS.
SHE LOOKS VERY BEAUTIFUL.
885
00:51:38,060 --> 00:51:42,480
AND SHE, TOO, HAS
A CHARISMATIC PERSONALITY.
886
00:51:42,616 --> 00:51:44,786
HE WAS INTERESTED IN PEOPLE
WHO WERE INTERESTED IN HIM
887
00:51:44,929 --> 00:51:48,279
AND THEY JUST HIT IT OFF.
888
00:51:48,415 --> 00:51:52,035
DEARBORN: MARTHA WAS
A REALLY TOUGH COOKIE.
889
00:51:52,143 --> 00:51:54,703
AND MARTHA, UM, WAS
A VERY GOOD WRITER
890
00:51:54,870 --> 00:51:56,490
AND SHE KNEW, UM, SHE HAD
891
00:51:56,630 --> 00:51:58,700
VERY GOOD CONNECTIONS
AND SO FORTH.
892
00:51:58,874 --> 00:52:01,224
AND SHE WENT TO SLOPPY JOE'S,
893
00:52:01,325 --> 00:52:04,255
WHICH SHE KNOWS THAT
HEMINGWAY HANGS OUT AT.
894
00:52:04,397 --> 00:52:05,977
IT'S A DISGUSTING BAR.
895
00:52:06,123 --> 00:52:08,403
YOU WOULDN'T TAKE YOUR MOTHER
AND YOUR BROTHER [LAUGHS] THERE,
896
00:52:08,504 --> 00:52:10,164
BUT SHE DOES.
897
00:52:10,299 --> 00:52:12,959
AND, MEANWHILE,
SHE'S WEARING A BLACK DRESS.
898
00:52:13,095 --> 00:52:14,915
SHE'S A BLOND.
899
00:52:15,062 --> 00:52:18,582
AND THE MARRIAGE
DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE.
900
00:52:19,998 --> 00:52:21,478
NARRATOR: GELLHORN
HAD ADMIRED HEMINGWAY
901
00:52:21,621 --> 00:52:24,591
SINCE HER COLLEGE DAYS
AT BRYN MAWR,
902
00:52:24,762 --> 00:52:25,942
WHEN SHE'D HUNG HIS PHOTOGRAPH
903
00:52:26,073 --> 00:52:29,353
ON THE WALL OF
HER DORMITORY ROOM.
904
00:52:29,491 --> 00:52:32,771
SHE'D PUBLISHED A BOOK OF
SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE POOR
905
00:52:32,942 --> 00:52:36,952
BASED ON INTERVIEWS SHE'D DONE
FOR A NEW DEAL AGENCY,
906
00:52:37,084 --> 00:52:38,914
AND A NOVEL.
907
00:52:39,086 --> 00:52:42,636
SHE HAD HAD AT LEAST
TWO MARRIED LOVERS.
908
00:52:42,780 --> 00:52:44,020
VAILL: MARTHA GELLHORN
HAD WRITTEN A NOVEL
909
00:52:44,161 --> 00:52:45,921
WHICH HAD BEEN
QUITE WELL RECEIVED...
910
00:52:46,093 --> 00:52:48,513
AH...ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN
COMING OF AGE
911
00:52:48,648 --> 00:52:51,438
SEXUALLY AS WELL
AS PROFESSIONALLY.
912
00:52:51,547 --> 00:52:53,997
ALL OF
THE REVIEWERS ACKNOWLEDGED
913
00:52:54,136 --> 00:52:58,136
THAT SHE HAD A DEBT, SORT OF
A STYLISTIC DEBT TO HEMINGWAY.
914
00:52:58,313 --> 00:53:03,843
SO, SHE HAD ALREADY A KIND OF
LITERARY CRUSH ON HIM.
915
00:53:05,043 --> 00:53:07,813
NARRATOR: GELLHORN SPENT
TWO WEEKS IN KEY WEST,
916
00:53:07,977 --> 00:53:11,637
MUCH OF THAT TIME IN
THE HEMINGWAYS' COMPANY.
917
00:53:13,707 --> 00:53:16,367
VAILL: SHE BECAME,
AS SHE LATER PUT IT,
918
00:53:16,503 --> 00:53:18,643
A FIXTURE LIKE A KUDU HEAD
919
00:53:18,816 --> 00:53:22,646
ON THE WALLS OF
THE HEMINGWAY HOUSE.
920
00:53:22,820 --> 00:53:24,130
SHE HUNG AROUND A WHOLE LOT.
921
00:53:24,304 --> 00:53:28,344
AND THE TWO OF THEM HAD
DEEP TALKS ABOUT FICTION
922
00:53:28,481 --> 00:53:31,691
AND HOW YOU WROTE
AND ABOUT SPAIN,
923
00:53:31,829 --> 00:53:33,829
WHICH SHE SEEMED TO KNOW
A GOOD DEAL ABOUT
924
00:53:33,934 --> 00:53:36,144
AND WHICH SHE WAS
VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
925
00:53:36,316 --> 00:53:39,936
AND THEY WERE IMMEDIATELY
ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER
926
00:53:40,078 --> 00:53:45,258
AND HATCHED A PLOT TO GO OFF
AND COVER THE WAR TOGETHER.
927
00:53:45,394 --> 00:53:47,714
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY HAD ALREADY
SIGNED UP AS A REPORTER
928
00:53:47,845 --> 00:53:50,495
FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE,
929
00:53:50,606 --> 00:53:53,506
SERVING 60 U.S. PAPERS.
930
00:53:53,678 --> 00:53:58,438
HE WAS TO BE PAID $1,000 FOR
EVERY FEATURE STORY WRITTEN
931
00:53:58,580 --> 00:54:02,000
AND $500 FOR EACH
CABLED DISPATCH--
932
00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:04,410
MORE THAN ANY
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
933
00:54:04,551 --> 00:54:07,001
HAD EVER BEEN PAID BEFORE.
934
00:54:07,174 --> 00:54:09,384
PAULINE OPPOSED HIS GOING.
935
00:54:09,487 --> 00:54:13,627
IT WAS SURE TO BE DANGEROUS;
SHE WAS AFRAID SHE'D LOSE HIM.
936
00:54:13,767 --> 00:54:17,527
HE WAS SORRY, HE SAID, "BUT YOU
CAN'T PRESERVE YOUR HAPPINESS
937
00:54:17,702 --> 00:54:21,292
BY PUTTING IT AWAY
IN MOTHBALLS."
938
00:54:21,430 --> 00:54:25,570
HE WAS MORE CANDID
WITH A FRIEND IN KEY WEST
THAT NOVEMBER:
939
00:54:25,710 --> 00:54:27,890
"NOTHING'S REALLY
HAPPENING TO ME HERE.
940
00:54:28,057 --> 00:54:31,097
"I'VE GOT TO GET OUT.
IN SPAIN MAYBE IT'S
941
00:54:31,233 --> 00:54:34,343
THE BIG PARADE STARTING AGAIN."
942
00:54:35,789 --> 00:54:38,069
VAILL: THEY DID NOT GO
ON THE SAME BOAT.
943
00:54:38,205 --> 00:54:41,135
THEY PRETENDED NOT
TO KNOW EACH OTHER.
944
00:54:41,278 --> 00:54:44,558
THEY TRAVELED UNDER
SEPARATE ITINERARIES,
945
00:54:44,729 --> 00:54:48,219
BUT THEY BOTH GOT TO MADRID
AND COMMENCED AN AFFAIR
946
00:54:48,319 --> 00:54:50,739
THAT WENT ON FOR
THE ENTIRE 3 YEARS
947
00:54:50,839 --> 00:54:52,389
OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
948
00:54:52,496 --> 00:54:55,046
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S "THE
GARDEN OF EDEN MIX 3" PLAYING]
949
00:54:55,222 --> 00:54:57,402
NARRATOR: WHEN THEY MET UP
IN MADRID,
950
00:54:57,570 --> 00:54:58,920
THE CITY HAD BEEN UNDER SIEGE
951
00:54:59,019 --> 00:55:03,299
BY FRANCO'S FASCIST FORCES
FOR 6 MONTHS.
952
00:55:05,025 --> 00:55:08,195
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
IN THE MORNING, BEFORE
YOUR CALL COMES FROM THE DESK,
953
00:55:08,339 --> 00:55:13,209
THE ROARING BURST OF A HIGH
EXPLOSIVE SHELL WAKES YOU
954
00:55:13,344 --> 00:55:16,004
AND YOU GO TO THE WINDOW
AND LOOK OUT TO SEE A MAN,
955
00:55:16,140 --> 00:55:19,350
HIS HEAD DOWN,
HIS COAT COLLAR UP,
956
00:55:19,488 --> 00:55:22,938
SPRINTING DESPERATELY ACROSS
THE PAVED SQUARE.
957
00:55:23,112 --> 00:55:25,152
THERE IS THE ACRID SMELL
OF HIGH EXPLOSIVE
958
00:55:25,287 --> 00:55:28,117
YOU HOPED YOU'D NEVER
SMELL AGAIN,
959
00:55:28,255 --> 00:55:30,875
AND, IN A BATHROBE
AND BEDROOM SLIPPERS,
960
00:55:31,017 --> 00:55:33,117
YOU HURRY DOWN THE MARBLE STAIRS
AND ALMOST INTO
961
00:55:33,226 --> 00:55:36,466
A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN,
WOUNDED IN THE ABDOMEN,
962
00:55:36,609 --> 00:55:38,369
WHO IS BEING HELPED
INTO THE HOTEL ENTRANCE
963
00:55:38,507 --> 00:55:41,407
BY TWO MEN IN
BLUE WORKMEN'S SMOCKS.
964
00:55:43,305 --> 00:55:44,615
SHE HAS HER TWO HANDS
CROSSED BELOW
965
00:55:44,789 --> 00:55:47,859
HER BIG, OLD-STYLE SPANISH BOSOM
966
00:55:47,999 --> 00:55:49,449
AND FROM BETWEEN HER FINGERS
967
00:55:49,553 --> 00:55:52,453
THE BLOOD IS SPURTING
IN A THIN STREAM.
968
00:55:54,454 --> 00:55:58,984
ON THE CORNER, 20 YARDS AWAY,
IS A HEAP OF RUBBLE,
969
00:55:59,079 --> 00:56:02,079
SMASHED CEMENT
AND THROWN-UP DIRT,
970
00:56:02,220 --> 00:56:06,330
A SINGLE DEAD MAN,
HIS TORN CLOTHES DUSTY,
971
00:56:06,466 --> 00:56:08,366
AND A GREAT HOLE
IN THE SIDEWALK FROM WHICH
972
00:56:08,503 --> 00:56:12,063
THE GAS FROM A BROKEN MAIN
IS RISING,
973
00:56:12,196 --> 00:56:16,786
LOOKING LIKE A HEAT MIRAGE
IN THE COLD MORNING AIR.
974
00:56:20,377 --> 00:56:22,207
NARRATOR: THE NEW LOVERS
OCCUPIED A SUITE
975
00:56:22,344 --> 00:56:25,874
ON THE THIRD FLOOR
OF THE HOTEL FLORIDA.
976
00:56:27,349 --> 00:56:30,419
THE HOTEL WAS SOMETIMES
HIT BY ENEMY SHELLS
977
00:56:30,559 --> 00:56:35,389
INTENDED FOR A NEARBY
LOYALIST COMMUNICATIONS CENTER,
978
00:56:35,530 --> 00:56:37,840
BUT IT REMAINED HEADQUARTERS
FOR A HOST OF
979
00:56:37,946 --> 00:56:42,256
CORRESPONDENTS AND CELEBRITIES
EAGER FOR A FIRST-HAND LOOK
980
00:56:42,399 --> 00:56:44,059
AT THE FIGHTING--
981
00:56:44,193 --> 00:56:48,063
ANDRE MALRAUX
AND ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY,
982
00:56:48,197 --> 00:56:51,237
HERBERT L. MATHEWS OF
"THE NEW YORK TIMES,"
983
00:56:51,373 --> 00:56:54,203
THE PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT CAPA,
984
00:56:54,376 --> 00:56:58,726
THE WRITERS LANGSTON HUGHES
AND JOHN DOS PASSOS,
985
00:56:58,863 --> 00:57:01,903
AND THE MOVIE STAR ERROL FLYNN.
986
00:57:03,281 --> 00:57:05,351
HEMINGWAY--"CRACKLING
WITH GENEROSITY,"
987
00:57:05,525 --> 00:57:08,795
ONE REPORTER REMEMBERED,
AND "BURSTING WITH VIGOR"--
988
00:57:08,942 --> 00:57:11,262
WAS AT THE CENTER OF THINGS.
989
00:57:11,393 --> 00:57:15,223
A HIGH-SPIRITED CROWD GATHERED
AROUND HIM EACH EVENING--
990
00:57:15,328 --> 00:57:19,538
OFTEN WEARING WINTER COATS
SINCE THE HOTEL HAD NO HEAT--
991
00:57:19,712 --> 00:57:22,992
TO DINE ON BEER AND WHISKEY,
CANNED HAM,
992
00:57:23,129 --> 00:57:25,549
AND PAT É HE IMPORTED
FROM FRANCE--
993
00:57:25,649 --> 00:57:28,889
SOMETIMES SUPPLEMENTED WITH
PARTRIDGES HE HAD SHOT
994
00:57:28,997 --> 00:57:31,517
IN THE FIELDS BEYOND THE CITY
THAT MORNING
995
00:57:31,655 --> 00:57:36,415
AND HAD COOKED UP ON A HOT PLATE
FOR HIMSELF AND HIS GUESTS.
996
00:57:38,075 --> 00:57:41,665
EDNA O'BRIEN: HE DID IDENTIFY,
MOST UTTERLY,
997
00:57:41,803 --> 00:57:44,533
WITH EXTREME SITUATIONS.
998
00:57:46,911 --> 00:57:51,051
IT'S LIKE IN "KING LEAR,"
IT'S WANTING TO KNOW THE WORST
999
00:57:51,226 --> 00:57:53,436
AND TO KNOW IF ONE CAN BEAR IT.
1000
00:57:54,436 --> 00:57:58,296
IT'S A TEST.
AND IT'S ALSO A TERROR.
1001
00:57:59,648 --> 00:58:03,238
AND THEY, THEY COME TOGETHER
IN ONE.
1002
00:58:04,515 --> 00:58:06,585
NARRATOR: MARTHA GELLHORN,
REPORTING ON THE WAR
1003
00:58:06,690 --> 00:58:07,760
FOR "COLLIER'S,"
1004
00:58:07,932 --> 00:58:09,182
WAS INTRODUCED BY ERNEST
1005
00:58:09,313 --> 00:58:12,043
TO EVERYONE AS HIS GIRLFRIEND.
1006
00:58:12,178 --> 00:58:14,278
SHE WORE SHORT SKIRTS, AND OFTEN
1007
00:58:14,387 --> 00:58:17,107
"SAT ON THE TABLE,"
ONE WOMAN RECALLED,
1008
00:58:17,286 --> 00:58:21,976
"SWINGING HER LONG, SLIM LEGS
IN A PROVOCATIVE MANNER."
1009
00:58:22,119 --> 00:58:24,089
BUT SHE COVERED THE
FIGHTING EVERY BIT AS
1010
00:58:24,190 --> 00:58:27,090
FEARLESSLY AS HEMINGWAY DID.
1011
00:58:28,608 --> 00:58:30,298
GELLHORN: WE'D EITHER
HEAR WITH OUR EARS
1012
00:58:30,472 --> 00:58:32,612
THAT SOMETHING WAS GOING ON,
OR WE'D HEAR BY RUMOR
1013
00:58:32,785 --> 00:58:35,125
THAT THERE WAS A PUSH
OR A BATTLE OR SOMETHING,
1014
00:58:35,270 --> 00:58:37,380
THEN WE'D JUST GO OFF TO IT.
1015
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:42,214
IT WAS A VERY SMALL,
VERY MUCH DO-IT-YOURSELF WAR.
1016
00:58:42,346 --> 00:58:45,206
IT WAS, IT WAS
THE SIDE OF THE POOR
1017
00:58:45,349 --> 00:58:50,319
AND, UM, AND THAT
WAS HOW IT WORKED,
1018
00:58:50,423 --> 00:58:53,083
AND THOSE OF US WHO CARED
ABOUT IT, CARED ABOUT IT,
1019
00:58:53,219 --> 00:58:56,739
I SUPPOSE, MORE THAN
ANYTHING BEFORE OR SINCE.
1020
00:58:56,878 --> 00:58:59,288
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S "THE
GARDEN OF EDEN MIX 3" PLAYING]
1021
00:59:02,469 --> 00:59:04,639
NARRATOR: BUT BEHIND
THE SCENES, JOSEF STALIN
1022
00:59:04,817 --> 00:59:07,647
WAS EXACTING A FEARFUL PRICE
FOR THE AID
1023
00:59:07,751 --> 00:59:10,481
HE PROVIDED TO LOYALIST SPAIN.
1024
00:59:10,581 --> 00:59:12,381
HIS AGENTS WERE ORDERED
TO TAKE OVER
1025
00:59:12,514 --> 00:59:15,344
AS MUCH OF THE GOVERNMENT
AS THEY COULD
1026
00:59:15,448 --> 00:59:19,348
AND SUPPRESS WHAT STALIN CALLED
"UNTRUSTWORTHY ELEMENTS"
1027
00:59:19,521 --> 00:59:24,041
WITHIN ITS COALITION,
ANYONE HE COULD NOT CONTROL--
1028
00:59:24,181 --> 00:59:28,081
ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS,
TROTSKYITES.
1029
00:59:28,219 --> 00:59:31,499
SUSPECTS WERE
SPIRITED AWAY, TORTURED,
1030
00:59:31,671 --> 00:59:35,641
EXECUTED IN SECRET
AND WITHOUT TRIAL.
1031
00:59:36,780 --> 00:59:40,610
HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN DINED
OFTEN WITH SOVIET COMMISSARS
1032
00:59:40,749 --> 00:59:43,099
AND HEMINGWAY INTERVIEWED
THE MAN RESPONSIBLE
1033
00:59:43,234 --> 00:59:46,384
FOR MOST OF THE EXECUTIONS.
1034
00:59:46,513 --> 00:59:49,143
BUT THEY REPORTED NONE OF IT.
1035
00:59:49,275 --> 00:59:51,205
TO EXPOSE THEM, THEY BELIEVED,
1036
00:59:51,380 --> 00:59:55,280
WOULD HAVE HURT
THE ANTI-FASCIST CAUSE.
1037
00:59:55,419 --> 00:59:58,079
BESIDES, HEMINGWAY WANTED
TO USE THE MATERIAL
1038
00:59:58,215 --> 01:00:00,285
IN HIS NEXT NOVEL.
1039
01:00:01,425 --> 01:00:03,145
WHEN THE SOVIETS
ORDERED THE EXECUTION
1040
01:00:03,289 --> 01:00:06,529
OF A CLOSE LOYALIST FRIEND
OF JOHN DOS PASSOS,
1041
01:00:06,637 --> 01:00:11,117
HEMINGWAY TOLD DOS PASSOS
TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT IT.
1042
01:00:11,262 --> 01:00:12,642
WHEN HIS OLD FRIEND INSISTED
1043
01:00:12,781 --> 01:00:15,541
HE HAD TO GO PUBLIC
WITH WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
1044
01:00:15,715 --> 01:00:18,645
HEMINGWAY SAID IT WOULD
END HIS CAREER--
1045
01:00:18,787 --> 01:00:21,127
THE LEFT-WING
LITERARY WORLD IN NEW YORK
1046
01:00:21,272 --> 01:00:23,382
WOULD NEVER FORGIVE HIM.
1047
01:00:24,828 --> 01:00:27,348
"WHY, ERNEST,"
DOS PASSOS' WIFE SAID,
1048
01:00:27,485 --> 01:00:33,005
"I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING
SO DESPICABLY OPPORTUNISTIC
IN MY LIFE."
1049
01:00:33,146 --> 01:00:36,456
THEIR FRIENDSHIP
NEVER FULLY RECOVERED.
1050
01:00:39,325 --> 01:00:40,775
THROUGH IT ALL,
HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN
1051
01:00:40,913 --> 01:00:42,573
GREW STEADILY CLOSER.
1052
01:00:42,673 --> 01:00:45,503
AT ONE POINT, HE ASKED HER
TO MARRY HIM.
1053
01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:49,442
SHE WAS AMBIVALENT,
RESPONDING ONLY IN HER DIARY,
1054
01:00:49,611 --> 01:00:53,821
"NOTE TO H.: I LOVE YOU
VERY MUCH INDEED."
1055
01:00:55,030 --> 01:00:57,580
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: I CAN DO
VERY WELL WITHOUT MARRIAGE.
1056
01:00:57,757 --> 01:01:01,207
I'D RATHER SIN RESPECTABLY,
ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.
1057
01:01:01,347 --> 01:01:03,447
ERNEST THINKS, OF COURSE,
THAT MARRIAGE
1058
01:01:03,556 --> 01:01:07,276
SAVES YOU A LOT OF TROUBLE
AND HE IS ALL FOR IT.
1059
01:01:07,456 --> 01:01:11,976
I LIKE IT BETTER CLEAN:
I THINK SIN IS VERY CLEAN.
1060
01:01:12,116 --> 01:01:14,666
THERE ARE NO STRINGS
ATTACHED TO IT.
1061
01:01:14,809 --> 01:01:16,429
[FILM PROJECTOR WHIRRING]
1062
01:01:16,603 --> 01:01:18,883
[MEN SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
1063
01:01:19,020 --> 01:01:22,300
HEMINGWAY: BEFORE, DEATH CAME
WHEN YOU WERE OLD OR SICK.
1064
01:01:22,471 --> 01:01:24,961
BUT NOW IT COMES
TO ALL THIS VILLAGE.
1065
01:01:25,129 --> 01:01:28,129
HIGH IN THE SKY,
AND SHINING SILVER...
1066
01:01:28,305 --> 01:01:29,885
NARRATOR: AFTER TWO MONTHS
IN SPAIN,
1067
01:01:30,031 --> 01:01:32,071
THEY RETURNED TO
THE UNITED STATES,
1068
01:01:32,205 --> 01:01:33,515
WHERE GELLHORN PREVAILED UPON
1069
01:01:33,655 --> 01:01:35,685
HER FRIENDSHIP WITH
THE FIRST LADY
1070
01:01:35,830 --> 01:01:39,450
TO SCREEN "THE SPANISH EARTH,"
A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY
1071
01:01:39,626 --> 01:01:43,146
A COMMUNIST FILMMAKER
NAMED JORIS IVENS
1072
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,740
THAT HEMINGWAY HAD
WRITTEN AND NARRATED.
1073
01:01:46,875 --> 01:01:49,145
HEMINGWAY: THE SMELL OF DEATH
IS ACRID
1074
01:01:49,291 --> 01:01:51,091
HIGH EXPLOSIVE SMOKE
1075
01:01:51,224 --> 01:01:53,234
AND BLASTED GRANITE.
1076
01:01:53,364 --> 01:01:55,684
WHY DO THEY STAY?
THEY STAY BECAUSE
1077
01:01:55,815 --> 01:01:59,505
THIS IS THEIR CITY,
THESE ARE THEIR HOMES.
1078
01:01:59,612 --> 01:02:02,822
HERE IS THEIR WORK,
THIS IS THEIR FIGHT.
1079
01:02:02,926 --> 01:02:05,576
THE FIGHT TO BE ALLOWED
TO LIVE AS HUMAN BEINGS.
1080
01:02:05,722 --> 01:02:07,452
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"LA DESPEDIDA MIX 1" PLAYING]
1081
01:02:07,585 --> 01:02:09,205
NARRATOR: "IT WAS DAMNED NICE
OF THE ROOSEVELTS
1082
01:02:09,346 --> 01:02:11,656
TO HAVE US,"
HEMINGWAY LATER WROTE,
1083
01:02:11,762 --> 01:02:14,252
BUT THE PRESIDENT,
WHILE SYMPATHETIC,
1084
01:02:14,385 --> 01:02:18,285
FELT HE COULD DO NOTHING
TO HELP THE LOYALIST CAUSE.
1085
01:02:18,424 --> 01:02:22,264
THE UNITED STATES WAS
STILL A NEUTRAL COUNTRY.
1086
01:02:23,394 --> 01:02:25,054
HEMINGWAY WOULD RETURN TO SPAIN
1087
01:02:25,189 --> 01:02:28,849
3 MORE TIMES OVER
THE NEXT 17 MONTHS
1088
01:02:29,021 --> 01:02:33,961
AS THE FASCISTS SLOWLY,
STEADILY ADVANCED.
1089
01:02:34,095 --> 01:02:37,505
THOUGH HE HAD PRIVATELY COME
TO BELIEVE THE WAR HAD DEVOLVED
1090
01:02:37,684 --> 01:02:39,694
INTO WHAT HE CALLED
"A CARNIVAL OF
1091
01:02:39,859 --> 01:02:43,589
TREACHERY AND ROTTENNESS
ON BOTH SIDES,"
1092
01:02:43,725 --> 01:02:46,585
HIS DISPATCHES REMAINED
OPTIMISTIC EVEN AS
1093
01:02:46,728 --> 01:02:50,458
HOPES FOR A LOYALIST VICTORY
BEGAN TO FADE.
1094
01:02:51,871 --> 01:02:53,841
[EXPLOSIONS AND GUNFIRE]
1095
01:03:11,097 --> 01:03:12,817
AND WHEN ALL WAS FINALLY LOST
1096
01:03:12,961 --> 01:03:14,961
AND LOYALIST FRIENDS
OF HEMINGWAY'S
1097
01:03:15,101 --> 01:03:18,351
WERE FORCED INTO
EXILE IN FRANCE,
1098
01:03:18,484 --> 01:03:21,904
WITHOUT A CAUSE OR
A COUNTRY ANYMORE,
1099
01:03:22,005 --> 01:03:24,585
MARTHA FOUND HIM WEEPING.
1100
01:03:25,836 --> 01:03:29,666
"I REALLY DID LOVE ERNEST THEN,"
SHE WOULD REMEMBER.
1101
01:03:34,672 --> 01:03:36,672
[DAVID CIERI'S "I USED TO
LOVE YOU VARIATION 2" PLAYING]
1102
01:03:36,813 --> 01:03:39,193
WOMAN AS PAULINE HEMINGWAY:
OH, PAPA DARLING,
1103
01:03:39,332 --> 01:03:40,922
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?
1104
01:03:41,024 --> 01:03:43,164
IF YOU ARE NO LONGER THE MAN
I USED TO KNOW,
1105
01:03:43,302 --> 01:03:46,172
GET THE HELL OUT,
1106
01:03:46,305 --> 01:03:49,895
BUT IF YOU ARE,
STOP BEING SO STUPID.
1107
01:03:52,932 --> 01:03:55,312
NARRATOR: FROM THE FIRST,
PAULINE HAD RESENTED
1108
01:03:55,452 --> 01:03:59,352
HER HUSBAND'S
LONG ABSENCES OVERSEAS.
1109
01:03:59,490 --> 01:04:01,530
THEN, SOMEHOW, SHE LEARNED OF
1110
01:04:01,665 --> 01:04:04,455
HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH
MARTHA GELLHORN.
1111
01:04:04,633 --> 01:04:06,293
SHE DID EVERYTHING
SHE COULD THINK OF
1112
01:04:06,463 --> 01:04:09,223
TO KEEP HER MARRIAGE INTACT--
1113
01:04:09,362 --> 01:04:12,642
REUNIONS WITH HER
HUSBAND IN PARIS,
1114
01:04:12,779 --> 01:04:16,199
WYOMING VACATIONS WITH
HIM AND THE BOYS,
1115
01:04:16,335 --> 01:04:19,435
FAMILY FISHING TRIPS
OFF FLORIDA.
1116
01:04:19,545 --> 01:04:21,615
NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK.
1117
01:04:21,788 --> 01:04:23,238
WHENEVER THEY WERE TOGETHER,
1118
01:04:23,376 --> 01:04:26,686
BOTH SHE AND HER HUSBAND
WERE MISERABLE.
1119
01:04:28,588 --> 01:04:29,728
WOMAN AS PAULINE HEMINGWAY:
LIFE HERE IS GOING ON
1120
01:04:29,866 --> 01:04:31,796
JUST THE SAME AS
WHEN YOU WERE HERE
1121
01:04:31,902 --> 01:04:34,972
AND IT WAS SO UNATTRACTIVE
TO YOU,
1122
01:04:35,078 --> 01:04:38,008
AND IT WON'T BE ANY
DIFFERENT WHEN YOU GET BACK,
1123
01:04:38,150 --> 01:04:39,630
SO, IF YOU ARE HAPPY OVER THERE,
1124
01:04:39,737 --> 01:04:42,667
DON'T COME BACK HERE
TO BE UNHAPPY...
1125
01:04:43,672 --> 01:04:48,542
BUT I HOPE YOU CAN COME BACK
AND WE CAN BOTH BE HAPPY.
1126
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,300
[GERARDO MART ÍNEZ'S
"ROM ÁNTICA MUJER" PLAYING]
1127
01:05:02,933 --> 01:05:05,493
NARRATOR: IN THE EARLY SPRING
OF 1939,
1128
01:05:05,591 --> 01:05:07,701
HEMINGWAY WAS IN CUBA AGAIN,
1129
01:05:07,869 --> 01:05:12,249
WORKING ON A NEW NOVEL SET
DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR,
1130
01:05:12,391 --> 01:05:16,021
TO BE CALLED
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS."
1131
01:05:16,119 --> 01:05:19,329
HE HAD INVITED GELLHORN
TO JOIN HIM.
1132
01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:23,297
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: IT IS
EXACTLY AS IF HE WERE DEAD
1133
01:05:23,436 --> 01:05:25,676
OR VISITING ON THE MOON.
1134
01:05:25,783 --> 01:05:27,343
HE WRITES AND WHEN HE IS THROUGH
1135
01:05:27,509 --> 01:05:29,679
HE GOES INTO A SILENCE.
1136
01:05:31,444 --> 01:05:34,034
HE PROTECTS HIMSELF FROM
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING,
1137
01:05:34,137 --> 01:05:36,067
TAKES NO PART IN THIS WORLD,
1138
01:05:36,208 --> 01:05:39,558
CARES ABOUT NOTHING
EXCEPT WHAT HE IS WRITING.
1139
01:05:39,728 --> 01:05:42,458
HE'S ABOUT AS MUCH USE
AS A STUFFED SQUIRREL,
1140
01:05:42,593 --> 01:05:45,913
BUT HE IS TURNING OUT
A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
1141
01:05:46,045 --> 01:05:49,385
AND NOTHING ON EARTH BESIDES
MATTERS TO HIM.
1142
01:05:49,566 --> 01:05:51,636
YOU SEE, THAT'S THE WAY TO BE.
1143
01:05:51,775 --> 01:05:54,565
THAT WAY YOU GET WRITING DONE.
1144
01:05:54,674 --> 01:05:57,264
HE LIKEWISE BELIEVES IN
HIMSELF AND HIS WRITING
1145
01:05:57,401 --> 01:06:01,301
AS IF IT WERE THE TABLETS OF
STONE OR THE TRUE GOD,
1146
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,930
AND THAT'S ANOTHER ESSENTIAL.
1147
01:06:06,583 --> 01:06:07,793
NARRATOR: NO MATTER
HOW MUCH GELLHORN
1148
01:06:07,929 --> 01:06:09,999
BELIEVED IN HEMINGWAY
AND HIS WORK,
1149
01:06:10,138 --> 01:06:14,558
LIVING COOPED UP IN A HAVANA
HOTEL WITH HIM DAY AFTER DAY,
1150
01:06:14,660 --> 01:06:16,350
TRYING TO DO HER OWN WRITING
1151
01:06:16,489 --> 01:06:18,939
WHILE HE LABORED OVER
HIS TYPEWRITER,
1152
01:06:19,078 --> 01:06:21,668
DID NOT APPEAL FOR LONG,
1153
01:06:21,805 --> 01:06:25,595
SO, SHE RENTED A RUN-DOWN,
10-ACRE, HILL-TOP PROPERTY,
1154
01:06:25,774 --> 01:06:30,374
12 MILES OUTSIDE THE CITY,
CALLED FINCA VIG ÍA--
1155
01:06:30,503 --> 01:06:33,583
SPANISH FOR "LOOKOUT FARM."
1156
01:06:36,993 --> 01:06:38,343
WOMAN AS GELLHORN:
I WOKE TO LOOK OUT MY WINDOW
1157
01:06:38,477 --> 01:06:40,437
AT A CEIBA TREE, SO BEAUTIFUL
1158
01:06:40,617 --> 01:06:42,717
THAT YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IT,
1159
01:06:42,860 --> 01:06:46,860
AND HEAR THE PALMS RATTLING
IN THE MORNING WIND,
1160
01:06:47,003 --> 01:06:51,153
AND THE SUN STREAKING
OVER THE TILED FLOORS,
1161
01:06:51,283 --> 01:06:57,193
AND THE HOUSE ITSELF, WIDE
AND BARE AND CLEAN AND EMPTY,
1162
01:06:57,323 --> 01:06:59,953
LYING QUIET ALL AROUND ME.
1163
01:07:00,119 --> 01:07:02,949
AND I AM DELIGHTED.
1164
01:07:03,053 --> 01:07:04,743
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY WAS
DELIGHTED, TOO,
1165
01:07:04,882 --> 01:07:07,992
AND WOULD EVENTUALLY
BUY THE PLACE OUTRIGHT.
1166
01:07:08,093 --> 01:07:12,513
THE FINCA WOULD BE HIS HOME
FOR THE NEXT TWO DECADES.
1167
01:07:14,409 --> 01:07:16,619
[PADURA SPEAKING SPANISH]
1168
01:07:56,796 --> 01:07:58,936
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: PEOPLE
ASK YOU WHY YOU LIVE IN CUBA
1169
01:07:59,075 --> 01:08:02,415
AND YOU SAY IT IS
BECAUSE YOU LIKE IT.
1170
01:08:02,561 --> 01:08:04,181
IT IS TOO COMPLICATED
TO EXPLAIN ABOUT
1171
01:08:04,287 --> 01:08:07,767
THE EARLY MORNING
IN THE HILLS ABOVE HAVANA
1172
01:08:07,911 --> 01:08:10,191
WHERE EVERY MORNING
IS COOL AND FRESH
1173
01:08:10,293 --> 01:08:12,613
ON THE HOTTEST DAY IN SUMMER.
1174
01:08:12,743 --> 01:08:14,443
YOU COULD TELL THEM
THAT YOU LIVE IN CUBA
1175
01:08:14,573 --> 01:08:16,543
BECAUSE YOU ONLY HAVE
TO PUT SHOES ON
1176
01:08:16,644 --> 01:08:18,444
WHEN YOU COME INTO TOWN,
1177
01:08:18,577 --> 01:08:22,127
AND THAT YOU WORK AS WELL THERE
IN THOSE COOL EARLY MORNINGS
1178
01:08:22,270 --> 01:08:25,580
AS YOU EVER HAVE WORKED
ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
1179
01:08:27,068 --> 01:08:29,588
BUT THOSE ARE
PROFESSIONAL SECRETS.
1180
01:08:33,212 --> 01:08:35,802
PATRICK: I THINK WHAT
HE LIKED ABOUT CUBA AND...
1181
01:08:35,939 --> 01:08:38,599
AND WHY IT WAS SO BAD
WHEN IT WENT SOUR
1182
01:08:38,735 --> 01:08:43,875
WAS HE COULD REALLY INSULATE
HIMSELF FROM BEING AN AMERICAN;
1183
01:08:44,050 --> 01:08:47,050
HE COULD JUST COMPLETELY
LEAVE THAT BEHIND,
1184
01:08:47,226 --> 01:08:50,636
ENTER A WORLD WHERE
HE HAD NO LOYALTIES,
1185
01:08:50,781 --> 01:08:52,891
HE HAD NO REGRETS, NOTHING.
1186
01:08:53,059 --> 01:08:56,409
IT WAS A SORT OF
NEUTRAL CORNER FOR HIM.
1187
01:08:56,580 --> 01:08:58,410
MUCH HAS BEEN MADE BY THE CUBANS
1188
01:08:58,513 --> 01:09:00,343
OF HIS LOVE OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE.
1189
01:09:00,481 --> 01:09:02,791
I DON'T THINK HE HAD
MUCH FEELING [CHUCKLES]
1190
01:09:02,931 --> 01:09:04,421
FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE AT ALL.
1191
01:09:04,588 --> 01:09:10,868
BUT...AH...HE...HE...AH...HE
COULDN'T BE IN SPAIN
1192
01:09:11,008 --> 01:09:13,668
AND THIS WAS THE SECOND BEST,
YOU KNOW.
1193
01:09:13,804 --> 01:09:15,944
[TURNER LAYTON & HENRY CREAMER'S
"AFTER YOU'VE GONE
[INSTRUMENTAL]" PLAYING]
1194
01:09:16,048 --> 01:09:18,568
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: I AM NOW
SUDDENLY A MOTHER OF 3
1195
01:09:18,740 --> 01:09:20,850
AND I MUST SAY I LOVE IT.
1196
01:09:20,984 --> 01:09:24,024
IT'S CERTAINLY A LOT MORE FUN
TO BE A MOTHER OF 3
1197
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,960
WITHOUT EVER HAVING
TO LOSE YOUR SHAPE
1198
01:09:27,093 --> 01:09:29,963
THAN BEING A MOTHER OF ONE,
YOUR OWN,
1199
01:09:30,131 --> 01:09:33,241
AND NOT KNOWING HOW
THE BRAT WILL TURN OUT.
1200
01:09:34,549 --> 01:09:36,659
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY'S SONS
WOULD COME TO VISIT--
1201
01:09:36,793 --> 01:09:38,863
AND BEGIN TO GET TO KNOW
THE WOMAN WITH WHOM
1202
01:09:39,002 --> 01:09:42,212
THEIR FATHER WAS
NOW OPENLY LIVING.
1203
01:09:42,350 --> 01:09:44,590
PATRICK: SHE WAS
WONDERFUL WITH US.
1204
01:09:44,766 --> 01:09:45,936
I...I REALLY LOVED HER
1205
01:09:46,112 --> 01:09:48,842
AND SHE WAS A WONDERFUL PERSON.
1206
01:09:48,977 --> 01:09:52,147
NARRATOR: GREGORY REMEMBERED
HOW BEAUTIFUL MARTHA SEEMED
1207
01:09:52,257 --> 01:09:56,157
AND HER WILLINGNESS TO LISTEN
TO THE OPINIONS OF A 9-YEAR-OLD,
1208
01:09:56,295 --> 01:09:59,255
"AND AT LEAST PRETEND
TO GIVE THEM WEIGHT."
1209
01:10:00,299 --> 01:10:02,129
BUMBY LIKED HER, TOO,
HE REMEMBERED.
1210
01:10:02,301 --> 01:10:04,991
"I WAS OVERWHELMED BY
THIS MARVELOUS CREATURE
1211
01:10:05,131 --> 01:10:07,651
"WHO COULD SAY THE "F" WORD
SO NATURALLY
1212
01:10:07,824 --> 01:10:10,034
"THAT IT DIDN'T SOUND DIRTY.
1213
01:10:10,171 --> 01:10:12,791
I WAS HER IMMEDIATE CAPTIVE."
1214
01:10:14,002 --> 01:10:15,562
WOMAN AS GELLHORN:
THEY ALL THINK I AM A SORT OF
1215
01:10:15,694 --> 01:10:18,524
COLOSSAL JOKE AND ONE OF
THE BOYS
1216
01:10:18,662 --> 01:10:20,662
AND REFER TO ME AS "THE MARTY,"
1217
01:10:20,837 --> 01:10:22,867
AND I THINK IT ALL
GOES VERY FINE.
1218
01:10:23,011 --> 01:10:27,151
ANYHOW I AM NUTS FOR THEM,
WHICH IS A GRAND THING.
1219
01:10:31,192 --> 01:10:34,712
NARRATOR: ERNEST RETURNED
FROM TIME TO TIME TO KEY WEST
1220
01:10:34,851 --> 01:10:37,201
TO SEE HIS CHILDREN
DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR--
1221
01:10:37,371 --> 01:10:41,241
AND TO SEE IF HE AND PAULINE
COULD SOMEHOW MAKE IT WORK.
1222
01:10:43,273 --> 01:10:47,733
OVER THEIR 15 YEARS TOGETHER--
13 AS A MARRIED COUPLE--
1223
01:10:47,864 --> 01:10:50,114
HEMINGWAY HAD RISEN
TO A KIND OF FAME
1224
01:10:50,246 --> 01:10:54,556
NO AMERICAN WRITER SINCE
MARK TWAIN HAD ENJOYED.
1225
01:10:54,698 --> 01:10:56,248
ALL THAT TIME, PAULINE HAD
1226
01:10:56,390 --> 01:10:59,150
DEVOTED HERSELF
TO HIS WELL-BEING,
1227
01:10:59,289 --> 01:11:03,259
OFTEN ACTED AS HIS EDITOR,
AND SHE AND HER FAMILY
1228
01:11:03,397 --> 01:11:08,087
HAD PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT
BETWEEN BOOKS.
1229
01:11:08,229 --> 01:11:13,059
BUT IN THE END, NONE OF IT
WOULD SEEM TO MATTER TO HIM.
1230
01:11:15,132 --> 01:11:17,242
EDNA: O'BRIEN:
WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO GO AWAY,
1231
01:11:17,376 --> 01:11:19,066
THERE ARE TWO THINGS
ATTACHED TO IT.
1232
01:11:19,205 --> 01:11:22,855
ONE IS ADVENTURE AND NEW THINGS,
1233
01:11:23,037 --> 01:11:24,557
NEW SIGHTS, NEW SCENES,
1234
01:11:24,659 --> 01:11:26,559
DANGER, WHATEVER.
1235
01:11:26,661 --> 01:11:29,321
BUT THE OTHER, WHICH I BELIEVE,
1236
01:11:29,457 --> 01:11:33,457
AGAIN, IT IS ONLY MY HUNCH,
1237
01:11:33,599 --> 01:11:35,879
IS TO ESCAPE HIS OWN FAMILY.
1238
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,710
WRITERS DO.
THEY HAVE TO.
1239
01:11:41,124 --> 01:11:43,444
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
MEN WANT SOMEONE NEW,
1240
01:11:43,575 --> 01:11:45,015
OR SOMEONE YOUNGER,
1241
01:11:45,162 --> 01:11:47,412
OR SOMEONE THAT
THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE,
1242
01:11:47,579 --> 01:11:51,409
OR SOMEONE THAT LOOKS
LIKE SOMEONE ELSE.
1243
01:11:51,514 --> 01:11:53,104
THE BETTER YOU TREAT A MAN
1244
01:11:53,239 --> 01:11:55,999
AND THE MORE YOU SHOW HIM
YOU LOVE HIM,
1245
01:11:56,139 --> 01:11:59,629
THE QUICKER HE GETS
TIRED OF YOU.
1246
01:11:59,763 --> 01:12:02,703
DEARBORN: HE SAYS TO PAULINE,
"YOU TOOK ME FROM HADLEY
1247
01:12:02,835 --> 01:12:05,415
"AND NOW MARTHA IS
TAKING ME FROM YOU.
1248
01:12:05,597 --> 01:12:07,697
"WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND.
1249
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:09,810
LIVE BY THE SWORD,
DIE BY THE SWORD."
1250
01:12:09,946 --> 01:12:14,116
AND I THINK THAT WAS A REALLY
ROTTEN THING TO TELL PAULINE.
1251
01:12:14,226 --> 01:12:17,816
I MEAN, PAULINE MADE POSSIBLE
SOME OF HIS BEST WORK.
1252
01:12:17,954 --> 01:12:20,164
AND SHE'S HIS BEST READER.
1253
01:12:20,301 --> 01:12:22,611
NARRATOR: AS A CATHOLIC,
PAULINE WAS RELUCTANT
1254
01:12:22,717 --> 01:12:25,267
TO GRANT HEMINGWAY A DIVORCE.
1255
01:12:25,444 --> 01:12:29,174
THERE WERE ANGRY ACCUSATIONS
FROM BOTH SIDES.
1256
01:12:29,310 --> 01:12:32,730
GREGORY REMEMBERED
"SHOUTING IN OTHER ROOMS,
1257
01:12:32,865 --> 01:12:35,515
"DOORS SLAMMING,
MOTHER SCURRYING
1258
01:12:35,661 --> 01:12:38,351
OUT OF THEIR BEDROOM CRYING."
1259
01:12:39,458 --> 01:12:41,288
PATRICK: YOU KNOW,
BY 1939 IT WAS,
1260
01:12:41,391 --> 01:12:43,811
OH, IT WAS JUST
COMING TO AN END.
1261
01:12:44,843 --> 01:12:49,163
THE PATTERN IN OUR FAMILY
WAS TO DRIVE OUT FROM FLORIDA
1262
01:12:49,295 --> 01:12:50,845
TO, TO THE WEST.
1263
01:12:50,987 --> 01:12:53,057
AND IT TOOK QUITE A WHILE.
1264
01:12:53,196 --> 01:12:56,406
AND THEY HAD TREMENDOUS
ARGUMENTS, I REMEMBER.
1265
01:12:56,544 --> 01:12:59,134
AND DRIVING, YOU KNOW,
WHICH ROAD TO TAKE
1266
01:12:59,305 --> 01:13:03,165
AND, JUST ON EACH OTHER
ALL SUMMER LONG.
1267
01:13:04,345 --> 01:13:07,825
THEY WERE STILL NOMINALLY
TOGETHER, YOU KNOW,
1268
01:13:08,004 --> 01:13:11,844
BUT HE WAS REALLY PULLING OUT.
1269
01:13:12,008 --> 01:13:14,868
NARRATOR: ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1939--
1270
01:13:15,011 --> 01:13:18,261
TWO DAYS AFTER
HITLER'S FORCES INVADED POLAND,
1271
01:13:18,394 --> 01:13:20,604
STARTING THE SECOND WORLD WAR--
1272
01:13:20,741 --> 01:13:25,261
HEMINGWAY FINALLY TOLD PAULINE
HE WAS LEAVING FOR GOOD.
1273
01:13:29,025 --> 01:13:32,025
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"THE GARDEN OF EDEN MIX 3
GUITAR STEM" PLAYING]
1274
01:13:32,166 --> 01:13:33,956
JOHN McCAIN: I WAS 12 YEARS OLD.
1275
01:13:34,099 --> 01:13:38,309
I FOUND A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER
AND I BROUGHT IT IN,
1276
01:13:38,448 --> 01:13:42,688
TO PRESS IT IN A BOOK
SO I COULD PRESERVE IT.
1277
01:13:42,797 --> 01:13:46,247
THAT HAPPENED TO BE
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS,"
1278
01:13:46,387 --> 01:13:48,557
STILL THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
1279
01:13:48,665 --> 01:13:52,945
AND I STARTED READING AND I
COULDN'T STOP UNTIL I FINISHED.
1280
01:13:54,982 --> 01:13:56,122
NARRATOR: WHEN
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
1281
01:13:56,259 --> 01:13:59,299
WAS PUBLISHED IN
OCTOBER OF 1940,
1282
01:13:59,435 --> 01:14:02,295
EUROPE AND ASIA WERE
ENGULFED IN A WORLD WAR
1283
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:04,888
FAR MORE CATACLYSMIC
THAN THE ONE
1284
01:14:04,992 --> 01:14:06,822
IN WHICH HEMINGWAY
HAD BEEN WOUNDED.
1285
01:14:06,959 --> 01:14:09,379
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"THE GARDEN OF EDEN MIX 3
BASS STEM" PLAYING]
1286
01:14:21,836 --> 01:14:24,216
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"THE GARDEN OF EDEN MIX 3
PERC STEM" PLAYING]
1287
01:14:30,500 --> 01:14:31,980
VAILL: BY THE TIME
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS"
1288
01:14:32,122 --> 01:14:34,822
CAME OUT IN 1940,
1289
01:14:34,953 --> 01:14:38,403
WAR IN EUROPE WAS A REALITY.
1290
01:14:38,508 --> 01:14:43,438
FRANCE HAD FALLEN.
IT WAS DO OR DIE TIME.
1291
01:14:43,548 --> 01:14:47,588
THE QUESTIONS THAT HEMINGWAY
RAISES IN THAT NOVEL
1292
01:14:47,759 --> 01:14:49,929
WERE INCREDIBLY URGENT.
1293
01:14:50,106 --> 01:14:53,766
AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT
THE BELL WAS TOLLING
1294
01:14:53,868 --> 01:14:56,798
FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY,
NOT JUST FOR THE PEOPLE
1295
01:14:56,940 --> 01:14:59,050
IN FRANCE AND IN
ENGLAND OR SPAIN.
1296
01:14:59,184 --> 01:15:01,294
[BACH'S "PARTITIA FOR SOLO
VIOLIN NO.1 IN B MINOR V
SARABANDE VARIATION 5" PLAYING]
1297
01:15:02,325 --> 01:15:05,015
NARRATOR: THE STORY
IS SET IN 1937,
1298
01:15:05,155 --> 01:15:07,185
WHEN THE DEFEAT OF
FRANCO'S FORCES
1299
01:15:07,330 --> 01:15:09,640
HAD STILL SEEMED POSSIBLE.
1300
01:15:10,851 --> 01:15:14,481
ITS HERO IS AN IDEALISTIC YOUNG
AMERICAN COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR
1301
01:15:14,579 --> 01:15:18,579
NAMED ROBERT JORDAN, WITH SOME
KNOWLEDGE OF EXPLOSIVES
1302
01:15:18,721 --> 01:15:23,351
AND NO POLITICAL AFFILIATION
OTHER THAN HATRED OF FASCISM,
1303
01:15:23,484 --> 01:15:27,144
WHO FINDS HIMSELF PART OF
A GUERILLA BAND THAT UNDERTAKES
1304
01:15:27,246 --> 01:15:31,036
A DOOMED MISSION
TO DYNAMITE A BRIDGE.
1305
01:15:32,355 --> 01:15:34,455
McCAIN: MY HERO
IS ROBERT JORDAN.
1306
01:15:34,633 --> 01:15:37,713
ROBERT JORDAN IS
AS REAL TO ME AS YOU ARE.
1307
01:15:37,843 --> 01:15:41,473
HE WAS WORKING AS A PROFESSOR
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA.
1308
01:15:41,571 --> 01:15:43,021
BUT HE HEARD ABOUT
THIS STRUGGLE.
1309
01:15:43,159 --> 01:15:44,989
HE KNEW ABOUT FASCISM.
HE KNEW WHAT
1310
01:15:45,161 --> 01:15:47,991
HITLER AND MUSSOLINI WERE DOING.
1311
01:15:48,164 --> 01:15:50,414
AND HE DECIDED TO GO AND FIGHT
1312
01:15:50,546 --> 01:15:53,126
ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE
HE HAD NEVER MET
1313
01:15:53,238 --> 01:15:55,588
AND HE DID NOT KNOW.
1314
01:15:55,723 --> 01:16:00,663
EVEN KNOWING THAT THAT CAUSE
WAS A FLAWED CAUSE.
1315
01:16:02,419 --> 01:16:05,149
BUT HE WAS WILLING
TO FIGHT AND DO
1316
01:16:05,319 --> 01:16:07,559
WHATEVER HE THOUGHT HE COULD
1317
01:16:07,701 --> 01:16:11,051
FOR THE CAUSE OF
JUSTICE AND FREEDOM.
1318
01:16:11,187 --> 01:16:14,017
I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE
ROBERT JORDAN.
1319
01:16:16,433 --> 01:16:19,713
NARRATOR: ROBERT JORDAN IS
WILLING TO KILL--AND TO DIE--
1320
01:16:19,851 --> 01:16:23,411
TO CARRY OUT THE ORDERS
OF A SOVIET GENERAL,
1321
01:16:23,544 --> 01:16:26,274
BUT HE CANNOT ESCAPE
HIS GROWING BELIEF
1322
01:16:26,409 --> 01:16:30,519
THAT THE WAR HAS BECOME
"AN IDIOCY WITHOUT BOUNDS."
1323
01:16:31,621 --> 01:16:33,071
VAILL: IT'S A MUCH MORE
3-DIMENSIONAL
1324
01:16:33,209 --> 01:16:35,069
PORTRAYAL OF THE STRUGGLE
1325
01:16:35,211 --> 01:16:37,631
THAN HE HAD ALLOWED
HIMSELF TO GIVE
1326
01:16:37,765 --> 01:16:41,215
WHEN HE WAS OSTENSIBLY WRITING
JOURNALISM ABOUT IT.
1327
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,050
IT'S PRETTY INTERESTING
THAT THE NOVEL IS
1328
01:16:43,150 --> 01:16:44,700
MORE TRUTHFUL THAN
THE JOURNALISM.
1329
01:16:44,807 --> 01:16:47,327
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S "THE GARDEN
OF EDEN MIX 3" PLAYING]
1330
01:16:47,464 --> 01:16:50,924
NARRATOR: THERE ARE ATROCITIES
COMMITTED BY BOTH SIDES,
1331
01:16:51,054 --> 01:16:53,134
INCLUDING THE LOYALISTS'
SLAUGHTER OF
1332
01:16:53,263 --> 01:16:55,613
CIVILIAN FASCIST SYMPATHIZERS,
1333
01:16:55,749 --> 01:16:57,889
WHO ARE FORCED TO RUN
A BRUTAL GAUNTLET,
1334
01:16:57,992 --> 01:17:02,382
THEN HURLED FROM THE CLIFFS
IN AN ANDALUSIAN TOWN.
1335
01:17:03,895 --> 01:17:05,825
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: THEY CLUBBED
HIM TO DEATH VERY QUICKLY,
1336
01:17:05,966 --> 01:17:09,826
BEATING HIM AS SOON AS HE
REACHED THE FIRST OF THE MEN,
1337
01:17:09,970 --> 01:17:13,150
BEATING HIM AS HE TRIED
TO WALK WITH HIS HEAD UP,
1338
01:17:13,283 --> 01:17:16,293
BEATING HIM UNTIL HE FELL
AND CHOPPING AT HIM
1339
01:17:16,424 --> 01:17:19,364
WITH REAPING HOOKS
AND THE SICKLES,
1340
01:17:19,496 --> 01:17:21,456
AND MANY MEN BORE HIM
TO THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF
1341
01:17:21,602 --> 01:17:23,742
TO THROW HIM OVER
AND THERE WAS BLOOD NOW
1342
01:17:23,846 --> 01:17:27,016
ON THEIR HANDS AND ON
THEIR CLOTHING,
1343
01:17:27,159 --> 01:17:28,569
AND NOW BEGAN TO BE
THE FEELING THAT
1344
01:17:28,678 --> 01:17:32,298
THESE WHO CAME OUT
WERE TRULY ENEMIES
1345
01:17:32,440 --> 01:17:34,240
AND SHOULD BE KILLED.
1346
01:17:37,618 --> 01:17:40,308
NARRATOR: ROBERT JORDAN
MANAGES TO BLOW UP THE BRIDGE
1347
01:17:40,448 --> 01:17:42,618
BUT IS BADLY WOUNDED.
1348
01:17:42,761 --> 01:17:47,351
AT THE NOVEL'S CLIMAX,
HE LIES ALONE, IMMOBILIZED,
1349
01:17:47,490 --> 01:17:50,600
ON A WOODED SLOPE,
WAITING WITH HIS RIFLE
1350
01:17:50,769 --> 01:17:53,809
AS A FASCIST PATROL
COMES CLOSER.
1351
01:17:54,946 --> 01:17:57,466
VAILL: THE END OF THAT NOVEL
IS AS GOOD AS
1352
01:17:57,569 --> 01:18:00,679
ANYTHING HEMINGWAY
EVER WROTE, I THINK.
1353
01:18:00,814 --> 01:18:04,304
HEMINGWAY ALL HIS LIFE
IS WRESTLING WITH
1354
01:18:04,403 --> 01:18:08,133
QUESTIONS OF DEATH AND SUICIDE
AND WHETHER IT
1355
01:18:08,304 --> 01:18:09,964
HURTS VERY MUCH TO DIE, DADDY,
1356
01:18:10,133 --> 01:18:12,623
OR IT DOESN'T, WHETHER THAT IS
1357
01:18:12,791 --> 01:18:15,311
THE BRAVE THING TO DO,
THE RIGHT THING TO DO,
1358
01:18:15,483 --> 01:18:17,453
OR WHETHER IT'S
THE COWARD'S WAY OUT.
1359
01:18:17,623 --> 01:18:20,493
HE'S WRESTLING WITH THAT
ALL HIS LIFE.
1360
01:18:22,801 --> 01:18:25,081
NARRATOR: JORDAN'S FATHER,
THE READER LEARNS,
1361
01:18:25,217 --> 01:18:28,457
LIKE HEMINGWAY'S,
HAD KILLED HIMSELF.
1362
01:18:29,912 --> 01:18:32,602
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
OH, LET THEM COME, HE SAID.
1363
01:18:32,742 --> 01:18:35,642
I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT BUSINESS
THAT MY FATHER DID.
1364
01:18:37,747 --> 01:18:40,647
I WILL DO IT ALL RIGHT BUT
I'D MUCH PREFER NOT TO HAVE TO.
1365
01:18:40,750 --> 01:18:44,890
I'M AGAINST THAT.
DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT.
1366
01:18:45,030 --> 01:18:46,690
DON'T THINK AT ALL.
1367
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:50,480
I WISH THE BASTARDS
WOULD COME, HE SAID.
1368
01:18:50,656 --> 01:18:53,306
I WISH SO VERY MUCH THEY'D COME.
1369
01:18:54,868 --> 01:18:57,248
I GUESS I'M NOT AWFULLY
GOOD AT PAIN.
1370
01:18:57,387 --> 01:18:58,697
LISTEN, IF I DO THAT NOW
1371
01:18:58,837 --> 01:19:02,077
YOU WOULDN'T MISUNDERSTAND,
WOULD YOU?
1372
01:19:02,220 --> 01:19:06,430
WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
NOBODY, HE SAID.
1373
01:19:06,569 --> 01:19:11,509
GRANDFATHER, I GUESS.
NO. NOBODY.
1374
01:19:14,094 --> 01:19:17,034
THINK ABOUT MONTANA.
I CAN'T.
1375
01:19:17,131 --> 01:19:20,451
THINK ABOUT MADRID.
I CAN'T.
1376
01:19:20,583 --> 01:19:23,383
THINK ABOUT
A COOL DRINK OF WATER.
1377
01:19:23,482 --> 01:19:27,352
ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE.
1378
01:19:27,452 --> 01:19:29,772
LIKE A COOL DRINK OF WATER.
1379
01:19:31,249 --> 01:19:35,489
YOU'RE A LIAR.
IT WILL JUST BE NOTHING.
1380
01:19:35,632 --> 01:19:38,812
THAT'S ALL IT WILL BE.
JUST NOTHING.
1381
01:19:38,946 --> 01:19:45,536
THEN DO IT.
DO IT.
DO IT NOW.
1382
01:19:45,642 --> 01:19:48,472
IT'S ALL RIGHT TO DO IT NOW.
1383
01:19:48,611 --> 01:19:54,621
GO ON AND DO IT NOW.
NO, YOU HAVE TO WAIT.
1384
01:19:54,755 --> 01:20:00,205
WHAT FOR?
YOU KNOW ALL RIGHT.
THEN WAIT.
1385
01:20:05,248 --> 01:20:07,728
NARRATOR: WHEN "FOR WHOM
THE BELL TOLLS" WAS PUBLISHED,
1386
01:20:07,837 --> 01:20:10,147
MARXIST CRITICS
ATTACKED THE NOVEL
1387
01:20:10,288 --> 01:20:11,878
AS A BETRAYAL OF THEIR CAUSE
1388
01:20:12,014 --> 01:20:17,434
BECAUSE IT SHOWED SYMPATHY FOR
THE WAR'S VICTIMS ON BOTH SIDES.
1389
01:20:17,605 --> 01:20:21,435
OTHERS FOUND THE LOVE AFFAIR
BETWEEN ROBERT JORDAN AND MARIA,
1390
01:20:21,609 --> 01:20:25,269
A LOYALIST
GUERILLA FIGHTER, CLOYING.
1391
01:20:25,372 --> 01:20:27,582
[VARGAS LLOSA SPEAKING SPANISH]
1392
01:20:55,057 --> 01:20:57,297
[LAUGHS]
1393
01:20:57,473 --> 01:20:59,723
NARRATOR: DESPITE SOME
NEGATIVE REVIEWS,
1394
01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:03,375
THE NOVEL SOLD
"LIKE FROZEN DAIQUIRIS IN HELL,"
1395
01:21:03,513 --> 01:21:06,973
HEMINGWAY BOASTED TO
HIS FIRST WIFE HADLEY;
1396
01:21:07,138 --> 01:21:10,798
NEARLY HALF A MILLION COPIES
IN LESS THAN 6 MONTHS.
1397
01:21:10,969 --> 01:21:15,009
ONLY "GONE WITH THE WIND"
HAD SOLD FASTER.
1398
01:21:15,111 --> 01:21:19,321
"HEMINGWAY THE ARTIST IS WITH
US AGAIN," EDMUND WILSON WROTE,
1399
01:21:19,426 --> 01:21:22,736
"AND IT IS LIKE HAVING
AN OLD FRIEND BACK."
1400
01:21:22,878 --> 01:21:25,428
PARAMOUNT BOUGHT
THE MOVIE RIGHTS.
1401
01:21:25,570 --> 01:21:26,880
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" DECLARED IT
1402
01:21:27,020 --> 01:21:29,540
THE FINEST BOOK
HEMINGWAY HAD WRITTEN--
1403
01:21:29,677 --> 01:21:33,917
"THE FULLEST,
THE DEEPEST, THE TRUEST."
1404
01:21:34,061 --> 01:21:35,751
KATAKIS: I LOVE THAT BOOK.
I MEAN,
1405
01:21:35,891 --> 01:21:39,241
IT'S THE "RAIDERS OF
THE LOST ARK" OF ITS TIME...
1406
01:21:39,377 --> 01:21:42,407
AH...ONLY WITH
MORE DEPTH AND MEANING.
1407
01:21:42,552 --> 01:21:45,282
SOMEONE WHO IS
SACRIFICING HIMSELF
1408
01:21:45,417 --> 01:21:48,767
FOR SOMETHING HE BELIEVES IN.
1409
01:21:48,904 --> 01:21:52,844
McCAIN: FRIENDSHIP,
SACRIFICE, ROMANCE,
1410
01:21:52,942 --> 01:21:56,122
THAT NOTHING IS ROMANTIC
AS THAT, UH,
1411
01:21:56,256 --> 01:21:59,086
BETWEEN ROBERT JORDAN AND MARIA
IN THAT, UH,
1412
01:21:59,224 --> 01:22:01,544
IN THAT, UH, BOOK,
1413
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:06,020
AND, I THINK, SERVING A CAUSE
GREATER THAN YOURSELF.
1414
01:22:06,128 --> 01:22:07,538
I THINK THE IMPORTANT LESSON
1415
01:22:07,715 --> 01:22:11,405
THAT HEMINGWAY WAS
TRYING TO IMPART TO US
1416
01:22:11,547 --> 01:22:14,447
THAT NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
WITHIN HIMSELF.
1417
01:22:14,584 --> 01:22:16,694
ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS.
1418
01:22:18,036 --> 01:22:23,386
WE DO IN LIFE WHAT WE
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR.
1419
01:22:23,559 --> 01:22:26,699
WE, IN OUR LIVES,
MAKE CERTAIN CHOICES.
1420
01:22:27,977 --> 01:22:29,387
"I HAVE FOUGHT HARD
FOR WHAT I BELIEVED IN
1421
01:22:29,530 --> 01:22:30,950
"FOR A YEAR NOW.
1422
01:22:31,084 --> 01:22:34,574
"IF WE WIN HERE
WE WILL WIN EVERYWHERE.
1423
01:22:34,673 --> 01:22:38,573
"THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE
AND WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR
1424
01:22:38,677 --> 01:22:41,777
AND I HATE VERY MUCH
TO LEAVE IT."
1425
01:22:46,168 --> 01:22:48,548
[J. GREEN, E. HEYMAN,
R. SOUR, F. EYTON'S
"BODY AND SOUL" PLAYING]
1426
01:22:50,827 --> 01:22:51,927
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
IF YOU HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU
1427
01:22:52,070 --> 01:22:53,310
DON'T WANT TO MARRY ME,
1428
01:22:53,451 --> 01:22:55,661
WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME NOW.
1429
01:22:59,940 --> 01:23:02,560
IF YOU DO, I WILL BORE YOU LESS
1430
01:23:02,667 --> 01:23:03,907
AND AMUSE YOU MORE
1431
01:23:04,013 --> 01:23:06,773
THAN ANYONE ELSE
YOU'LL EVER MARRY
1432
01:23:06,878 --> 01:23:08,908
AND YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN ME
WITH A BIG SUCCESS
1433
01:23:09,018 --> 01:23:11,088
BUT I HAVE BEEN AROUND
WHEN THAT HAPPENED BEFORE
1434
01:23:11,193 --> 01:23:13,613
AND I CAN PROMISE YOU TRULY
THAT YOU WILL SEE
1435
01:23:13,712 --> 01:23:18,512
THE MODESTEST SON OF A BITCH
YOU EVER SAW TRULY.
1436
01:23:18,648 --> 01:23:21,758
I ONLY BRAG WHEN I AM ON MY ASS.
1437
01:23:22,963 --> 01:23:25,863
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: THERE IS
MUCH DIVORCE TALK GOING ON,
1438
01:23:26,001 --> 01:23:29,381
AND PROBABLY IT WILL ACTUALLY
MATERIALIZE IN DUE COURSE
1439
01:23:29,521 --> 01:23:31,631
AND I WILL BE MADE
AN HONEST WOMAN.
1440
01:23:31,730 --> 01:23:33,800
THEY OUGHT TO PUT IT
IN THE YEARBOOK:
1441
01:23:33,905 --> 01:23:37,425
GELLHORN, THE FIRST
OF HER CLASS TO SIN,
1442
01:23:37,598 --> 01:23:40,498
THE LAST TO LEGALIZE.
1443
01:23:41,809 --> 01:23:43,359
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY'S DIVORCE
FROM PAULINE
1444
01:23:43,501 --> 01:23:47,611
BECAME FINAL ON
NOVEMBER 4, 1940.
1445
01:23:47,781 --> 01:23:50,851
17 DAYS LATER, ON NOVEMBER 21,
1446
01:23:50,991 --> 01:23:52,821
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
AND MARTHA GELLHORN
1447
01:23:52,958 --> 01:23:56,478
WERE MARRIED
IN CHEYENNE, WYOMING.
1448
01:23:56,583 --> 01:24:00,663
SHE WAS 32.
HE WAS 41.
1449
01:24:00,759 --> 01:24:03,309
"ERNEST AND I BELONG
TIGHTLY TO EACH OTHER,"
1450
01:24:03,417 --> 01:24:06,347
MARTHA ASSURED
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT.
1451
01:24:06,489 --> 01:24:08,319
"WE ARE A GOOD PAIR AND WE ARE
1452
01:24:08,491 --> 01:24:11,601
BOTH CRAZY ABOUT BEING MARRIED."
1453
01:24:11,736 --> 01:24:15,456
NOW BOTH OF THEM
WERE IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
1454
01:24:17,362 --> 01:24:19,992
HEDDA HOPPER: NO FANCY
HOLLYWOOD BOOTS THESE.
1455
01:24:20,089 --> 01:24:22,399
THEY'VE TRAMPED THROUGH
THE DUST AND DEATH
1456
01:24:22,540 --> 01:24:24,540
OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
1457
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:25,680
THEY BELONG TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY,
1458
01:24:25,819 --> 01:24:27,339
FAMOUS AUTHOR AND ADVENTURER,
1459
01:24:27,510 --> 01:24:28,990
NOW ON A HUNTING TRIP IN IDAHO
1460
01:24:29,167 --> 01:24:30,857
WITH HIS PAL GARY COOPER,
1461
01:24:30,962 --> 01:24:33,862
TO WHOM THE GREAT OPEN SPACES
AREN'T JUST A MOVIE LOCATION.
1462
01:24:33,999 --> 01:24:36,279
NO SIR.
GARY'S IDEA OF A VACATION
1463
01:24:36,416 --> 01:24:39,936
IS TO GET AS FAR AWAY FROM
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD AS POSSIBLE,
1464
01:24:40,075 --> 01:24:43,415
WHERE GAME DOESN'T MEAN
GIN RUMMY.
1465
01:24:45,252 --> 01:24:46,672
[GUNSHOTS]
1466
01:24:47,841 --> 01:24:49,641
HER PEN NAME IS MARTHA GELLHORN,
1467
01:24:49,774 --> 01:24:52,854
BUT IN PRIVATE LIFE
SHE'S MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
1468
01:24:53,018 --> 01:24:54,018
[GUNSHOT]
1469
01:24:54,192 --> 01:24:57,512
MRS. HEMINGWAY
IS AN EXPERT MARKSWOMAN.
1470
01:24:58,714 --> 01:25:00,034
THE HEMINGWAYS FIRST MET
IN SPAIN,
1471
01:25:00,129 --> 01:25:02,409
WHERE MRS. HEMINGWAY WAS
A WAR CORRESPONDENT
1472
01:25:02,545 --> 01:25:03,955
AND ERNEST WAS
GATHERING MATERIAL
1473
01:25:04,099 --> 01:25:06,759
FOR HIS NOVEL
"FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS."
1474
01:25:09,276 --> 01:25:11,996
NARRATOR: IN 1941,
THE NEWLYWED HEMINGWAYS
1475
01:25:12,141 --> 01:25:16,321
EMBARKED ON A PECULIAR
SORT OF EXTENDED HONEYMOON,
1476
01:25:16,456 --> 01:25:19,006
A 4-MONTH
REPORTING TRIP TO CHINA,
1477
01:25:19,148 --> 01:25:23,598
WHERE WAR WITH JAPAN
HAD BEEN RAGING FOR 5 YEARS.
1478
01:25:23,739 --> 01:25:26,399
ON THE WAY, THE COUPLE
HAD STOPPED IN HONOLULU,
1479
01:25:26,500 --> 01:25:30,470
WHERE THEY TOURED THE VAST
NAVAL BASE AT PEARL HARBOR.
1480
01:25:30,608 --> 01:25:34,088
HEMINGWAY WORRIED ALOUD THAT
SO MANY WARSHIPS AND PLANES
1481
01:25:34,267 --> 01:25:39,547
LINED UP IN TIDY ROWS WOULD
INVITE A JAPANESE ATTACK.
1482
01:25:41,274 --> 01:25:44,244
HEMINGWAY HAD AGREED TO
REPORT SECRETLY TO WASHINGTON
1483
01:25:44,346 --> 01:25:48,316
ON HOW HE THOUGHT THE WAR
IN CHINA WAS GOING.
1484
01:25:48,453 --> 01:25:51,773
HE ALSO AGREED TO ACT
AS A SECRET OPERATIVE
1485
01:25:51,939 --> 01:25:54,769
FOR THE SOVIET UNION,
THOUGH IN THE END
1486
01:25:54,873 --> 01:25:59,503
HE WOULD SUPPLY
NO INFORMATION TO MOSCOW.
1487
01:25:59,637 --> 01:26:01,157
[PLANE WHOOSHING]
1488
01:26:06,437 --> 01:26:08,607
[AIR RAID SIREN BLARING]
1489
01:26:10,130 --> 01:26:12,790
NARRATOR: THE WORLD WAR
HEMINGWAY HAD WARNED AGAINST,
1490
01:26:12,891 --> 01:26:16,341
AND HAD HOPED HIS COUNTRY
COULD AVOID, HAD COME HOME.
1491
01:26:16,481 --> 01:26:20,731
4 DAYS AFTER PEARL HARBOR,
NAZI GERMANY AND FASCIST ITALY
1492
01:26:20,865 --> 01:26:23,935
DECLARED WAR ON
THE UNITED STATES.
1493
01:26:24,869 --> 01:26:27,629
DURING THE NEXT 8 MONTHS,
GERMAN U-BOATS SANK
1494
01:26:27,803 --> 01:26:33,883
360 MERCHANT VESSELS IN THE
GULF OF MEXICO, THE CARIBBEAN,
1495
01:26:34,016 --> 01:26:37,256
AND OFF THE EASTERN COAST
OF THE UNITED STATES.
1496
01:26:39,332 --> 01:26:43,922
WASHINGTON CALLED UPON CIVILIANS
TO HELP PATROL THOSE WATERS.
1497
01:26:44,060 --> 01:26:48,620
THE SHIPPING LANES AROUND CUBA
WERE OF SPECIAL CONCERN.
1498
01:26:50,860 --> 01:26:53,040
HEMINGWAY VOLUNTEERED TO HELP
1499
01:26:53,173 --> 01:26:55,003
AND GATHERED ABOARD THE "PILAR"
1500
01:26:55,140 --> 01:26:57,700
WHAT HE CALLED HIS
"HOOLIGAN NAVY"--
1501
01:26:57,833 --> 01:27:01,493
A MARINE SERGEANT,
TWO MILLIONAIRE YACHTSMEN,
1502
01:27:01,664 --> 01:27:04,054
A VETERAN
OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR,
1503
01:27:04,184 --> 01:27:07,434
AND SEVERAL ACTIVE
JAI-ALAI PLAYERS--
1504
01:27:07,567 --> 01:27:12,327
AND THEN PROPOSED
A SPECTACULARLY
FAR-FETCHED SCHEME.
1505
01:27:12,503 --> 01:27:16,513
HE HOPED TO LURE
ENEMY U-BOATS TO THE SURFACE,
1506
01:27:16,679 --> 01:27:18,749
CLOSE TO WITHIN 20 YARDS,
1507
01:27:18,888 --> 01:27:20,578
MACHINE-GUN EVERYONE ON DECK
1508
01:27:20,718 --> 01:27:22,198
SO THAT THE JAI-ALAI PLAYERS
1509
01:27:22,340 --> 01:27:26,030
COULD LOB EXPLOSIVES
DOWN THE HATCH.
1510
01:27:26,206 --> 01:27:29,586
HOW THE "PILAR" WAS TO AVOID
BEING BLOWN TO SPLINTERS
1511
01:27:29,727 --> 01:27:32,727
BY THE GERMANS' DECK GUN
WAS NEVER CLEAR,
1512
01:27:32,868 --> 01:27:34,898
BUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
SUPPLIED HEMINGWAY
1513
01:27:35,042 --> 01:27:37,772
WITH ALL THE WEAPONRY
AND COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
1514
01:27:37,907 --> 01:27:40,697
HE ASKED FOR--AND LIMITLESS,
1515
01:27:40,876 --> 01:27:45,186
OTHERWISE STRICTLY-RATIONED
GASOLINE.
1516
01:27:45,294 --> 01:27:48,264
PATRICK: HE HAD US ON
HIS BOAT, THE "PILAR,"
1517
01:27:48,401 --> 01:27:52,271
OFF THE CUBAN COAST IN A PLACE
CALLED CAYO CONFITES.
1518
01:27:52,405 --> 01:27:55,295
THERE WERE TWO BUNKS THERE,
ONE ON EACH SIDE
1519
01:27:55,442 --> 01:27:58,652
AND A LITTLE HATCH THAT
YOU COULD GET OUT OF.
1520
01:27:58,790 --> 01:28:01,930
AND THEY LEFT US ON THE ISLAND.
1521
01:28:02,069 --> 01:28:03,279
WHAT DO THEY CALL
THE PEOPLE THAT
1522
01:28:03,416 --> 01:28:05,036
LOOK AFTER THE WELFARE
OF CHILDREN?
1523
01:28:05,210 --> 01:28:06,590
THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN US AWAY
1524
01:28:06,729 --> 01:28:10,459
FROM OUR FATHER IMMEDIATELY.
[LAUGHS]
1525
01:28:10,595 --> 01:28:13,005
NARRATOR: HEMINGWAY AND HIS
CREW DID KEEP WATCH
1526
01:28:13,149 --> 01:28:18,149
ON THE COUNTLESS BAYS AND INLETS
AND ISLANDS ALONG CUBA'S COAST.
1527
01:28:18,293 --> 01:28:20,993
ONLY ONCE IN ALL THAT TIME
DID THE "PILAR"
1528
01:28:21,123 --> 01:28:24,023
ACTUALLY SPOT
AN ENEMY SUBMARINE,
1529
01:28:24,160 --> 01:28:28,990
BUT IT PROVED FAR TOO FAST
AND FAR AWAY TO CATCH.
1530
01:28:29,131 --> 01:28:32,311
HEMINGWAY HIMSELF WOULD
REMEMBER HIS SUBMARINE-CHASING
1531
01:28:32,445 --> 01:28:37,415
AS THAT "SEA-BORNE COMIC STRIP
WE OPERATED IN THE CARIBBEAN."
1532
01:28:41,143 --> 01:28:43,323
[DAVID CIERI'S "FOR CATHERINE
[NIAGARA FALLS]" PLAYING]
1533
01:28:51,947 --> 01:28:52,777
EDNA O'BRIEN:
I BET WHEN HEMINGWAY WAS
1534
01:28:52,913 --> 01:28:53,813
FIRST IN LOVE WITH
1535
01:28:53,949 --> 01:28:55,469
EACH PARTICULAR WOMAN,
1536
01:28:55,606 --> 01:28:57,916
I BET HE BECAME THE BOY AGAIN.
1537
01:28:58,954 --> 01:29:02,924
BUT HE WAS A BIT OF
A CONTROLLER IN LIFE
1538
01:29:03,096 --> 01:29:05,366
AND A BIT OF A BULLY AS WELL.
1539
01:29:05,512 --> 01:29:10,662
SO THAT EVERYDAY LIFE WITH
HEMINGWAY WOULD BE INTOLERABLE.
1540
01:29:10,793 --> 01:29:15,633
IT WAS, I THINK, HE LOVED
AS A TRUTHFUL PERSON AT FIRST
1541
01:29:15,798 --> 01:29:22,318
AND THEN BECAME THE MYTHOLOGIZED
MAN IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
1542
01:29:22,495 --> 01:29:26,045
WOMAN AS GELLHORN:
THE ONLY SERIOUS COMPLAINT
I HAVE ABOUT MATRIMONY
1543
01:29:26,188 --> 01:29:29,708
IS THAT IT BRINGS OUT
THE FAINT GOODNESS IN ME,
1544
01:29:29,847 --> 01:29:33,467
AND HAS A TENDENCY
TO SOFTEN AND QUIET
1545
01:29:33,575 --> 01:29:35,465
THE HELL ON WHEELS ASPECT,
1546
01:29:35,646 --> 01:29:38,506
AND FINALLY I BECOME
BORED WITH MYSELF.
1547
01:29:38,649 --> 01:29:42,859
[GUNSHOT]
MY MAN IS ANOTHER
HELL ON WHEELS CHARACTER,
1548
01:29:42,998 --> 01:29:45,588
AND WHAT IS SO CHRISTED ODD
IS THAT
1549
01:29:45,725 --> 01:29:47,685
TWO PEOPLE CANNOT LIVE TOGETHER,
1550
01:29:47,830 --> 01:29:49,560
WITH ANY ORDER OR HEALTH,
1551
01:29:49,694 --> 01:29:53,014
IF THEY ARE BOTH HELL ON WHEELS,
1552
01:29:53,111 --> 01:29:57,561
SO, FOR THE MUTUAL GOOD,
THEY MUST BOTH CALM THEMSELVES.
1553
01:29:57,702 --> 01:30:01,532
AND THAT IS A LOSS,
BUT I HAVE NOT YET FOUND OUT
1554
01:30:01,672 --> 01:30:03,882
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
1555
01:30:04,019 --> 01:30:08,919
ERNEST AND I REALLY ARE
AFRAID OF EACH OTHER,
1556
01:30:09,058 --> 01:30:10,368
EACH ONE KNOWING THAT THE OTHER
1557
01:30:10,508 --> 01:30:13,618
IS THE MOST VIOLENT PERSON
EITHER ONE KNOWS,
1558
01:30:13,753 --> 01:30:16,693
AND KNOWING SOMETHING ABOUT
VIOLENCE WE ARE ALWAYS
1559
01:30:16,859 --> 01:30:21,379
MUTUALLY ALARMED AT THE
POTENTIALITIES OF THE OTHER.
1560
01:30:21,485 --> 01:30:25,695
SO, WHEN WE ARE TOGETHER,
WE TAKE IT FAIRLY EASY,
1561
01:30:25,799 --> 01:30:31,049
SO AS NOT TO SEE THE OTHER
BURST INTO LOUD, FURIOUS FLAME.
1562
01:30:33,566 --> 01:30:36,466
NARRATOR: MARTHA GELLHORN HAD
NO INTENTION OF STAYING HOME
1563
01:30:36,603 --> 01:30:39,233
WITH HER HUSBAND AS PAULINE HAD.
1564
01:30:39,330 --> 01:30:42,540
AND AT FIRST,
HE ENCOURAGED HER WORK.
1565
01:30:43,783 --> 01:30:46,543
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: I CAN'T
REALLY WRITE AT ALL
THE WAY YOU CAN
1566
01:30:46,717 --> 01:30:49,477
WELL AND EASILY AND GOOD.
1567
01:30:49,616 --> 01:30:52,406
I JUST NAIL WORDS TOGETHER
LIKE A BLOODY CARPENTER
1568
01:30:52,550 --> 01:30:54,860
AND IT IS SO TOUGH TO DO.
1569
01:30:56,105 --> 01:30:59,005
YOU ARE MY HERO
AND ALWAYS WILL BE
1570
01:30:59,143 --> 01:31:02,223
AND I WILL BE GOOD AND TRY
TO LIVE UP TO MY HERO.
1571
01:31:03,354 --> 01:31:06,914
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR
HAVING COME TO KEY WEST
1572
01:31:07,013 --> 01:31:09,123
AND FOR HAVING MARRIED ME.
1573
01:31:10,361 --> 01:31:12,921
NARRATOR: GELLHORN'S VIEW
OF HERSELF AND HER TALENT
1574
01:31:13,019 --> 01:31:15,569
WAS EVERY BIT AS EXALTED
AS HER HUSBAND'S VIEW
1575
01:31:15,746 --> 01:31:17,636
OF HIMSELF AND HIS.
1576
01:31:17,782 --> 01:31:20,752
"WE TWO ARE GREAT PEOPLE,"
SHE ONCE TOLD HIM.
1577
01:31:20,854 --> 01:31:23,514
"WE CAN SHAKE THE WORLD."
1578
01:31:23,650 --> 01:31:25,790
BUT THE COUPLE FOUND IT
HARD TO KEEP
1579
01:31:25,928 --> 01:31:28,588
THEIR VOLATILITY
SMOTHERED FOR LONG.
1580
01:31:28,690 --> 01:31:31,970
SHE BEGAN TO TRAVEL
MORE AND MORE ON ASSIGNMENT
1581
01:31:32,107 --> 01:31:35,347
AND HE BEGAN TO RESENT IT.
1582
01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:39,840
BEEGEL: MARTHA WAS A WOMAN
WHO WOULD NOT BACK DOWN.
1583
01:31:39,977 --> 01:31:41,147
MARTHA WAS A WOMAN WHO COULD
1584
01:31:41,288 --> 01:31:44,118
GIVE AS GOOD
AS SHE GOT VERBALLY.
1585
01:31:44,291 --> 01:31:47,611
MARTHA WAS A WOMAN WHO HAD HER
OWN LIFE THAT SHE WANTED TO LIVE
1586
01:31:47,778 --> 01:31:49,498
AND CAREER SHE WANTED TO PURSUE
1587
01:31:49,642 --> 01:31:54,202
AND NOBODY WAS
TAKING THAT AWAY FROM HER.
1588
01:31:54,336 --> 01:31:55,986
KALE: THEY WERE GREAT
IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
1589
01:31:56,131 --> 01:32:00,651
WHERE THERE'S BULLETS AND, AND
SHELLS FLYING EVERY WHICH WAY.
1590
01:32:00,756 --> 01:32:05,136
BUT PUT 'EM TOGETHER IN A HOUSE
AND IT WAS JUST A DISASTER.
1591
01:32:05,243 --> 01:32:07,453
[DAVID CIERI'S
"DUST RISING" PLAYING]
1592
01:32:08,661 --> 01:32:10,151
NARRATOR: AFTER GELLHORN
RETURNED TO CUBA
1593
01:32:10,283 --> 01:32:12,323
FROM A LENGTHY REPORTING TRIP,
1594
01:32:12,492 --> 01:32:14,912
SHE WAS CONVINCED THAT
HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURING
1595
01:32:15,046 --> 01:32:17,666
ABOARD THE "PILAR"
WAS POINTLESS,
1596
01:32:17,808 --> 01:32:21,158
JUST AN EXCUSE TO FISH AND DRINK
WITH HIS FRIENDS
1597
01:32:21,259 --> 01:32:23,809
WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD
WAS AT WAR,
1598
01:32:23,917 --> 01:32:27,157
AND SHE DID NOT HESITATE
TO SAY SO.
1599
01:32:27,265 --> 01:32:29,575
HE WAS, IN FACT,
NOT WRITING AT ALL
1600
01:32:29,716 --> 01:32:32,336
AND WAS DRINKING
MORE AND MORE HEAVILY,
1601
01:32:32,512 --> 01:32:35,902
BEGINNING WITH A SCOTCH-AND-SODA
AT 10 IN THE MORNING
1602
01:32:36,033 --> 01:32:38,383
AND KEEPING AT IT ALL DAY.
1603
01:32:40,209 --> 01:32:41,939
HE WAS ANGERED BY HER CRITICISM
1604
01:32:42,073 --> 01:32:46,043
AND NOW SOMETIMES
DISMISSIVE OF HER WRITING.
1605
01:32:46,181 --> 01:32:48,491
"I'LL SHOW YOU,
YOU CONCEITED BITCH,"
1606
01:32:48,597 --> 01:32:51,667
ONE OF HIS SONS
REMEMBERED HEARING HIM SHOUT.
1607
01:32:51,773 --> 01:32:53,953
"THEY'LL BE READING MY STUFF
LONG AFTER
1608
01:32:54,085 --> 01:32:56,665
THE WORMS HAVE
FINISHED WITH YOU."
1609
01:32:58,849 --> 01:33:00,919
BEEGEL: OF ALL OF HIS WIVES,
HE HAD THE LEAST POWER
1610
01:33:01,058 --> 01:33:02,918
AND THE LEAST CONTROL
OVER MARTHA,
1611
01:33:03,060 --> 01:33:03,990
SO, THAT WOULD, I THINK,
1612
01:33:04,095 --> 01:33:05,715
TEND TO SEND THINGS
1613
01:33:05,856 --> 01:33:08,096
OVER THE TOP.
1614
01:33:08,237 --> 01:33:17,137
VERBAL ABUSE STARTS WITH MARTHA
AND HORRIBLE SLANGING MATCHES.
1615
01:33:17,281 --> 01:33:19,011
NARRATOR: THEY HAD BEEN
TOGETHER OFF AND ON
1616
01:33:19,179 --> 01:33:20,869
FOR 7 YEARS,
1617
01:33:20,974 --> 01:33:24,224
NEARLY 3 OF THEM
AS HUSBAND AND WIFE.
1618
01:33:24,322 --> 01:33:26,602
WHEN APART, THEIR LETTERS
WERE STILL FULL OF
1619
01:33:26,739 --> 01:33:30,229
FOND NICKNAMES AND DECLARATIONS
OF LOVE.
1620
01:33:30,363 --> 01:33:31,743
BUT WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER,
1621
01:33:31,882 --> 01:33:34,682
THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE.
1622
01:33:36,507 --> 01:33:39,407
WHEN GELLHORN INSISTED ON
DRIVING HOME FROM HAVANA
1623
01:33:39,510 --> 01:33:42,720
AT THE END OF ONE
ESPECIALLY DRUNKEN EVENING,
1624
01:33:42,824 --> 01:33:44,554
HEMINGWAY SLAPPED HER.
1625
01:33:44,653 --> 01:33:47,663
SHE DELIBERATELY DROVE HIS CAR
INTO A DITCH
1626
01:33:47,794 --> 01:33:52,564
AND LEFT HIM THERE WHILE SHE
WALKED BACK TO THE FINCA ALONE.
1627
01:34:21,759 --> 01:34:23,619
BY THE SUMMER OF 1943,
1628
01:34:23,761 --> 01:34:27,701
THE TIDE OF WAR IN EUROPE
HAD BEGUN TO TURN.
1629
01:34:27,834 --> 01:34:29,154
THE GERMANS AND ITALIANS
1630
01:34:29,284 --> 01:34:32,364
HAD BEEN DRIVEN
FROM NORTH AFRICA.
1631
01:34:32,494 --> 01:34:36,364
ALLIED TROOPS
HAD LANDED IN ITALY.
1632
01:34:36,498 --> 01:34:38,428
THE SOVIET ARMY WAS MOVING WEST,
1633
01:34:38,534 --> 01:34:41,644
DRIVING THE NAZI INVADERS
BEFORE THEM.
1634
01:34:43,643 --> 01:34:45,653
GELLHORN LONGED TO BE
PART OF IT--
1635
01:34:45,783 --> 01:34:48,133
AND COULD NOT UNDERSTAND
HOW HEMINGWAY
1636
01:34:48,303 --> 01:34:50,623
DID NOT FEEL THE SAME WAY.
1637
01:34:50,719 --> 01:34:52,829
SHE TOLD HIM SHE WANTED
TO FEEL AGAIN
1638
01:34:52,963 --> 01:34:56,073
ALL "THE BLINDNESS
AND FERVOR AND RECKLESSNESS"
1639
01:34:56,207 --> 01:34:58,347
SHE HAD ONCE FELT WITH HIM.
1640
01:34:59,970 --> 01:35:03,040
IN SEPTEMBER, SHE LEFT
FOR ENGLAND WITHOUT HIM,
1641
01:35:03,180 --> 01:35:05,250
TO REPORT FOR "COLLIER'S."
1642
01:35:05,389 --> 01:35:09,499
HEMINGWAY WAS ANGRY,
MOROSE, BEREFT.
1643
01:35:09,669 --> 01:35:12,049
[JOHNNY GANDELSMAN'S
"FLOR DE LA NOCHE MIRANDO
A LAS ESTRELLAS MIX 2" PLAYING]
1644
01:35:12,189 --> 01:35:14,049
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: THE LETTER
WHERE YOU SAY THAT THESE ARE
1645
01:35:14,191 --> 01:35:16,681
THE WORST TWO WEEKS OF YOUR LIFE
1646
01:35:16,780 --> 01:35:22,270
AND THAT YOU FEEL YOU ARE GOING
TO DIE OF SADNESS IS TOO AWFUL.
1647
01:35:22,406 --> 01:35:26,166
YOU MATTER MORE THAN
ANYTHING IN THE WORLD TO ME.
1648
01:35:26,272 --> 01:35:28,272
I CAN'T HAVE YOU
DYING OF SADNESS.
1649
01:35:28,412 --> 01:35:30,832
I JUST CAN'T BE PARTY TO THAT.
1650
01:35:30,932 --> 01:35:34,182
IF YOU SEE THAT YOU TRULY
CANNOT BEAR IT,
1651
01:35:34,314 --> 01:35:36,494
I'LL COME HOME.
1652
01:35:38,836 --> 01:35:40,906
NARRATOR: BUT SHE DIDN'T
COME HOME.
1653
01:35:41,045 --> 01:35:43,385
WHEN "COLLIER'S" PUBLISHED
MARTHA'S DISPATCHES
1654
01:35:43,530 --> 01:35:45,290
FROM THE ITALIAN FRONT,
1655
01:35:45,429 --> 01:35:47,599
HEMINGWAY PUBLICLY PRAISED THEM.
1656
01:35:47,742 --> 01:35:50,402
"YOU FEEL IT AS THOUGH
IT WERE YOU," HE SAID,
1657
01:35:50,537 --> 01:35:52,437
"AND YOU WERE THERE."
1658
01:35:53,678 --> 01:35:55,918
BUT SHE REMEMBERED
RECEIVING AN ANGRY CABLE
1659
01:35:56,060 --> 01:35:57,790
FROM HER HUSBAND IN CUBA:
1660
01:35:57,924 --> 01:36:02,204
"ARE YOU A WAR CORRESPONDENT
OR WIFE IN MY BED?"
1661
01:36:03,447 --> 01:36:06,727
MARTHA HOPED SHE COULD
SOMEHOW STILL BE BOTH.
1662
01:36:06,864 --> 01:36:09,114
"IT IS QUITE A JOB
BEING A WOMAN, ISN'T IT?"
1663
01:36:09,246 --> 01:36:11,316
SHE WROTE TO MRS. ROOSEVELT.
1664
01:36:11,455 --> 01:36:13,865
"YOU CANNOT DO YOUR WORK
AND SIMPLY GET ON WITH IT
1665
01:36:13,975 --> 01:36:15,315
"BECAUSE THAT IS SELFISH.
1666
01:36:15,459 --> 01:36:18,189
YOU HAVE TO BE
TWO THINGS AT ONCE."
1667
01:36:20,050 --> 01:36:23,780
AGAIN AND AGAIN, HEMINGWAY
BEGGED HER TO RETURN TO CUBA.
1668
01:36:23,916 --> 01:36:29,646
AGAIN AND AGAIN, SHE URGED HIM
TO JOIN HER IN LONDON INSTEAD.
1669
01:36:29,784 --> 01:36:34,374
HE REFUSED TO DO IT.
FINALLY, SHE GAVE UP TRYING.
1670
01:36:36,411 --> 01:36:38,311
WOMAN AS GELLHORN:
I LOVE YOU DEARLY.
1671
01:36:38,447 --> 01:36:41,277
I WON'T URGE YOU
ANY MORE TO COME,
1672
01:36:41,416 --> 01:36:43,416
THOUGH I DO THINK
YOU WILL REGRET IT
1673
01:36:43,590 --> 01:36:46,080
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE
A GREAT GENERAL LOSS
1674
01:36:46,179 --> 01:36:47,559
FOR FUTURE TIME, FOR ALL PEOPLE
1675
01:36:47,663 --> 01:36:50,673
WHO NEED AND LOVE TO READ.
1676
01:36:50,805 --> 01:36:54,145
I KNOW IT IS HELL
FOR YOU THERE ALONE
1677
01:36:54,291 --> 01:36:56,601
BUT I HAVE TO ASK YOU
TO BE PATIENT.
1678
01:36:56,776 --> 01:37:00,536
YOU HAVE A LIFE THERE BECAUSE
YOU HAVE USEFUL WORK;
1679
01:37:00,676 --> 01:37:04,646
IT IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN
AND FEEL RIGHT ABOUT DOING.
1680
01:37:06,268 --> 01:37:08,748
BUT I BELIEVE IN
WHAT I AM DOING, TOO.
1681
01:37:08,857 --> 01:37:11,337
I HAVE TO LIVE MY WAY
AS WELL AS YOURS,
1682
01:37:11,480 --> 01:37:14,930
OR THERE WOULDN'T BE
ANY ME TO LOVE YOU WITH.
1683
01:37:15,105 --> 01:37:18,515
YOU WOULDN'T REALLY WANT ME IF
I BUILT A FINE BIG STONE WALL
1684
01:37:18,660 --> 01:37:21,460
AROUND THE FINCA
AND SAT INSIDE IT.
1685
01:37:23,803 --> 01:37:26,943
NARRATOR: THAT WAS EXACTLY
WHAT HE DID WANT HER TO DO.
1686
01:37:27,117 --> 01:37:30,877
DEPRESSION GRIPPED HIM--
HE CALLED IT "BLACK ASS."
1687
01:37:31,017 --> 01:37:33,467
FEELING ABANDONED,
WITH NO WRITING PROJECT
1688
01:37:33,606 --> 01:37:35,636
IN WHICH TO LOSE HIMSELF,
1689
01:37:35,815 --> 01:37:37,955
THE DREAD OF SLEEPING ALONE
THAT HAD PLAGUED HIM
1690
01:37:38,128 --> 01:37:42,578
SINCE HIS RETURN FROM
THE GREAT WAR DEEPENED.
1691
01:37:42,718 --> 01:37:45,238
HE NOW HAD TO
DRINK HIMSELF TO SLEEP--
1692
01:37:45,376 --> 01:37:48,446
AND WAS CONSUMED WITH SELF-PITY.
1693
01:37:49,864 --> 01:37:52,634
MAN AS HEMINGWAY: I AM
SICK-LONELY WITH MARTY AWAY.
1694
01:37:53,798 --> 01:37:56,488
LIKE SOMEBODY WITH
THEIR HEART CUT OUT.
1695
01:37:56,594 --> 01:37:59,154
LOVED MARTY SO MUCH
AND TO THE EXCLUSION OF
1696
01:37:59,321 --> 01:38:02,221
EVERYTHING AND ALL ELSE SO THAT
1697
01:38:02,359 --> 01:38:05,709
EVERYBODY WHO USED
TO LOVE ME QUIT.
1698
01:38:05,845 --> 01:38:10,675
SO, NOW I HAVE NO MARTY
AND NOBODY ELSE.
1699
01:38:12,093 --> 01:38:15,583
NARRATOR: IN EARLY 1944,
MARTHA RETURNED TO CUBA,
1700
01:38:15,717 --> 01:38:18,377
HOPING SOMEHOW
TO REASSURE HER HUSBAND
1701
01:38:18,513 --> 01:38:20,933
AND REBUILD THEIR MARRIAGE.
1702
01:38:21,067 --> 01:38:22,657
IT DIDN'T WORK.
1703
01:38:24,105 --> 01:38:27,585
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: HE WOKE ME
WHEN I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP
1704
01:38:27,729 --> 01:38:30,869
TO BULLY, SNARL, MOCK.
1705
01:38:31,043 --> 01:38:35,253
MY CRIME REALLY WAS TO HAVE
BEEN AT WAR WHEN HE HAD NOT,
1706
01:38:35,392 --> 01:38:37,742
BUT THAT WAS NOT HOW HE PUT IT.
1707
01:38:37,877 --> 01:38:42,677
I WAS SUPPOSEDLY INSANE, I HAD
NO RESPONSIBILITY TO ANYONE,
1708
01:38:42,847 --> 01:38:46,267
I WAS SELFISH BEYOND BELIEF.
1709
01:38:48,025 --> 01:38:50,365
NARRATOR: SHE ASSAILED HIM
AGAIN FOR HIS DRINKING,
1710
01:38:50,545 --> 01:38:52,715
RIDICULED HIS SUBMARINE HUNTING,
1711
01:38:52,892 --> 01:38:57,592
ACCUSED HIM OF COWARDICE IN
STAYING AWAY FROM THE REAL WAR.
1712
01:38:58,691 --> 01:39:00,381
THE LONG-PLANNED ALLIED INVASION
1713
01:39:00,555 --> 01:39:03,385
OF NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE
WAS COMING.
1714
01:39:03,558 --> 01:39:05,768
HE OWED IT TO HIMSELF,
SHE INSISTED--
1715
01:39:05,905 --> 01:39:10,565
HE OWED IT TO HISTORY--TO BE
IN AT THE DEATH OF FASCISM.
1716
01:39:11,773 --> 01:39:13,573
HISTORY DIDN'T CONCERN HIM,
HE SAID.
1717
01:39:13,740 --> 01:39:17,120
HE'D BEEN WOUNDED IN ONE WAR
AND UNDER FIRE IN TWO.
1718
01:39:17,261 --> 01:39:20,581
HIS LUCK WAS LIKELY
TO RUN OUT IN A THIRD.
1719
01:39:20,747 --> 01:39:24,367
IF HE WERE TO BE KILLED,
SHE WOULD BEAR THE BLAME.
1720
01:39:25,407 --> 01:39:27,057
FINALLY, GELLHORN TOLD HIM
1721
01:39:27,237 --> 01:39:28,957
SHE "WAS GOING BACK TO LONDON
1722
01:39:29,101 --> 01:39:31,721
WHETHER HE CAME OR NOT."
1723
01:39:33,036 --> 01:39:37,446
THEN, SUDDENLY, HE CHANGED
HIS MIND AND AGREED TO GO.
1724
01:39:37,592 --> 01:39:41,842
HE TOLD HER, "JUST FEEL
LIKE OLD HORSE."
1725
01:39:43,011 --> 01:39:46,671
MAN AS HEMINGWAY:
GOOD, SOUND, BUT OLD,
1726
01:39:46,808 --> 01:39:49,158
BEING SADDLED AGAIN
TO RACE OVER THE JUMPS
1727
01:39:49,293 --> 01:39:52,093
BECAUSE OF UNSCRUPULOUS OWNER.
1728
01:39:52,262 --> 01:39:54,472
WILL MAKE SAME RACE AS ALWAYS,
1729
01:39:54,609 --> 01:39:57,089
BEST THAT CAN MAKE,
BUT AM NEITHER
1730
01:39:57,267 --> 01:40:00,997
HAPPY, EXCITED, NOR INTERESTED.
1731
01:40:01,133 --> 01:40:03,383
[DAVID CIERI'S "I USED TO
LOVE YOU VARIATION 2" PLAYING]
1732
01:40:03,514 --> 01:40:05,624
NARRATOR: HE SIGNED ON
WITH "COLLIER'S"--
1733
01:40:05,792 --> 01:40:07,792
THUS ENSURING THAT
GELLHORN WOULD BE
1734
01:40:07,898 --> 01:40:12,798
OVERSHADOWED AT THE MAGAZINE
FOR WHICH SHE WROTE REGULARLY.
1735
01:40:12,972 --> 01:40:16,182
"HE DID IT TO FIX ME,"
SHE REMEMBERED MANY YEARS LATER.
1736
01:40:16,320 --> 01:40:20,500
"NOTHING COULD BEAT IT
FOR SHEER BITCHERY."
1737
01:40:20,635 --> 01:40:21,945
STILL, MARTHA PERSUADED A FRIEND
1738
01:40:22,119 --> 01:40:24,539
AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY
IN WASHINGTON
1739
01:40:24,673 --> 01:40:26,953
TO PROVIDE HIM WITH
A HARD-TO-OBTAIN SEAT
1740
01:40:27,055 --> 01:40:30,395
ON AN RAF PLANE
HEADED FOR LONDON.
1741
01:40:30,541 --> 01:40:33,131
SHE ASSUMED SHE'D BE
BOARDING THE PLANE, TOO.
1742
01:40:33,303 --> 01:40:37,133
BUT HEMINGWAY, STILL BITTER OVER
THE PRESSURE SHE'D PUT ON HIM,
1743
01:40:37,307 --> 01:40:40,307
TOLD HER THE MILITARY
HAD BARRED WOMEN--
1744
01:40:40,482 --> 01:40:42,522
EVEN THOUGH TWO
BRITISH ACTRESSES
1745
01:40:42,657 --> 01:40:46,007
WOULD BE AMONG
HIS FELLOW PASSENGERS.
1746
01:40:46,109 --> 01:40:49,729
GELLHORN WAS FORCED TO CROSS
THE NORTH ATLANTIC ALONE,
1747
01:40:49,871 --> 01:40:52,771
THE SOLE CIVILIAN ABOARD
A NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER
1748
01:40:52,908 --> 01:40:55,908
CARRYING EXPLOSIVES
AND LANDING CRAFT,
1749
01:40:56,050 --> 01:41:01,400
PART OF THE PREPARATIONS
FOR D-DAY, NOW JUST WEEKS AWAY.
1750
01:41:01,538 --> 01:41:04,508
HER MARRIAGE WAS
ESSENTIALLY OVER.
1751
01:41:04,644 --> 01:41:06,034
"ERNEST IS A GOOD MAN,"
1752
01:41:06,163 --> 01:41:09,863
SHE WROTE AN OLD FRIEND
WHILE ABOARD SHIP.
1753
01:41:10,029 --> 01:41:12,409
WOMAN AS GELLHORN: HE IS,
HOWEVER, BAD FOR ME...
1754
01:41:12,549 --> 01:41:15,519
OR MAYBE WRONG FOR ME
IS THE WORD;
1755
01:41:15,621 --> 01:41:18,071
AND I AM WRONG FOR HIM.
1756
01:41:20,729 --> 01:41:23,559
AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED,
IT IS ALL OVER.
1757
01:41:23,698 --> 01:41:26,698
IT'LL NEVER WORK
BETWEEN US AGAIN.
1758
01:41:26,873 --> 01:41:32,123
I AM WONDERING NOW IF
IT EVER REALLY WORKED;
1759
01:41:32,258 --> 01:41:37,128
I AM WONDERING WHAT ALL THESE
7 YEARS WERE ABOUT EXACTLY.
1760
01:41:38,264 --> 01:41:47,314
I FEEL TERRIBLY STRANGE, LIKE
A SHADOW, AND FULL OF DREAD.
1761
01:41:47,446 --> 01:41:52,446
I DREAD THE TIME AHEAD,
THE AMPUTATING TIME.
1762
01:41:53,555 --> 01:41:56,895
IT IS, NOTE, MY FAULT:
1763
01:41:57,041 --> 01:41:58,941
I AM THE ONE WHO HAS CHANGED
1764
01:41:59,078 --> 01:42:03,698
AND I AM ASHAMED
AND GUILTY, TOO,
1765
01:42:03,876 --> 01:42:07,806
BECAUSE I AM BREAKING HIS HEART.
1766
01:42:07,949 --> 01:42:09,739
WE QUARRELED TOO MUCH,
I SUPPOSE.
1767
01:42:09,847 --> 01:42:16,747
IT'S ALL SICKENING AND I'M
SAD TO DEATH AND AFRAID.
1768
01:42:16,923 --> 01:42:23,003
I ONLY WANT TO BE ALONE.
I WANT TO BE MYSELF
1769
01:42:23,137 --> 01:42:26,857
AND ALONE AND FREE
TO BREATHE, LIVE,
1770
01:42:27,002 --> 01:42:31,872
LOOK UPON THE WORLD
AND FIND IT HOWEVER IT IS.
1771
01:42:32,007 --> 01:42:35,797
I WANT MY OWN NAME BACK,
MOST VIOLENTLY,
1772
01:42:35,942 --> 01:42:41,502
AS IF GETTING IT BACK
WOULD GIVE ME SOME OF MYSELF.
1773
01:42:44,710 --> 01:42:45,750
NARRATOR:
HEMINGWAY GOT TO ENGLAND
1774
01:42:45,849 --> 01:42:49,369
11 DAYS BEFORE GELLHORN DID--
1775
01:42:49,508 --> 01:42:52,098
LONG ENOUGH FOR HIM TO MEET
THE WOMAN WHO WOULD BECOME
1776
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:56,240
THE FOURTH
MRS. ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
1777
01:42:56,377 --> 01:42:58,757
[DUKE ELLINGTON & BUBBER MILEY'S
"THE NEW EAST ST. LOUIS
TOODLE-O" PLAYING]
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